An ex-priest has been quoted to me as saying, ‘NZ Catholic for me is an occasion of
sin. I can get very angry, reading it.’
Surpassing wit. But as the occasion for repeating the remark was a
Christian Meditation meeting, it's hardly surpassing charity.
It’s only to be expected that a Catholic
newspaper will upset some people. If it didn’t, it wouldn’t be doing its job.
What’s unexpected is the anger of a Christian and a Catholic. ‘Let all bitterness, and anger, and indignation … be put
away from you, with all malice’ (Eph 4.31).
And please don’t tell me that Jesus
Christ was angry when he turned the money-changers out of the temple. I’ve yet
to read a translation of that passage which states that he was angry.
Being
human, we assume He was angry. We forget that He was divine.
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