COMPARING PRIESTS AND SUPERMARKET WORKERS

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"Covid-19," says Sharon Crooks of Palmerston North, "makes the supermarket worker seem not only braver than the Bishops and priests of the Catholic Church, but filled with far more charity too.

"While the checkout-operator and shelf-stacker demonstrate love for their neighbour, ensuring food for the hungry, the Bishop instructs his priests to lock the church and starve their flock."

Comparisons are odious, of course. And one has to consider that check-out operators are paid to do their job - but bishops and priests are, too.

One might add that with NZ Listener, Women's Day and Sky City employees all out of a job, check-out operators are probably only too happy to go to work.

Bishops and priests also, surely, should be only too happy to go to work, saving souls. But they know their Employer will never go out of business.

They know their jobs are safe.

"For we, O Lord, are diminished more than any nation, and are brought low in all the earth this day for our sins. Neither is there at this time prince, or leader, or prophet, or holocaust, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, of place of first-fruits before Thee, that we may find Thy mercy" (Dan 3:15).