AUSTRALIA
The Saturday Paper
Diarist-at-large Richard Ackland flys about the nation.
Cardinal Pell is fortunate, indeed, to have sermons delivered on his behalf by Father Gerard Henderson, the texts of which are published regularly in The Catholic Boys Weekly, aka Lord Moloch’s Weekend Australian.
As a result the Cardinal’s public standing could not be in better shape. According to Hendo, Pell has dedicated his life to hunting down clerical paedophiles in his midst and if anyone thinks otherwise it is the fault of the ABC, Mark Scott, and left-wing journalists.
I couldn’t agree more. In recent sermons Fr Gerard recounted how he wrote to current ABC chairman J. J. Spigelman asking him to “renounce” the comments of one of his long-ago predecessors as chairman of Aunty, Professor Richard Downing, who defended an ABC program in 1975 that discussed “the phenomenon of paederasty”.
It’s a complete puzzle why Spigsy is not busying himself rummaging through ABC programs of 40 years ago and “renouncing” ones that Fr Gerard says represent a “double standard”.
Such is life in the Spigeltent.
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