St Therese of Lisieux
When I heard of this story I thought it was a joke. Some of the Saint’s bones will be paraded around the UK. For what purpose? To promote healing and reconciliation? Perhaps a worthy aim, but there are better ways of doing it, than using old relics. But then you don’t get the publicity you get with this stunt.
They didn’t really work when they went to Iraq, did they?
I always read Matthew Parris in the Times, as he puts a humorous slant onto things I think deeply about. He is in good form today, calling for atheists to come out and fight.
What? And we’re reporting this deadpan — and not in the Wacky World pages of light magazines? “Organisers said that the arrival of the casket, containing pieces of her thigh and foot bones, was likely to attract hundreds of thousands of pilgrims.” I’m sorry: “pilgrims”? Isn’t the word “dupes”? Does balanced reporting require neutrality even towards the self-evidently preposterous? Would a conference of the Flat Earth Society get giggle-free treatment on the news?
There is a lot more in the same vein. Great!
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