AUSTRALIA
Border Mail
Mick McGlone
11 Feb 2017
AN opinion columnist should always be grateful for the opportunities the role provides. But it is not all beer and skittles, let me assure you.
There have been times I have sat in front of the computer wondering what I was going to write about. At other times there have been so many topics available. This week it is the latter.
There was the excellent Cork and Fork event at Noreuil Park last Friday, the disgraceful behaviour of Senator Cory Bernardi, the death of the great man Eric Turner and a commentary on the many people who do so much for the community and other topics.
But as a Catholic I feel a duty to comment on what has come out of the proceedings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse.
I am not about to sink to beat my chest and plead mea culpa – because I have no reason to; it is not a question of me remaining silent while all this was happening around me. I was in complete ignorance.
I could come up with a lot of excuses for what has happened.
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