Posted by Christopher Mc on Monday, December 21, 2009
Under: Affairs
Funny how people see things differently. I watched a few minutes of the Late Late Show on Friday. Tubridy was interviewing three guys - I thought they were seminarians. Turns out they were recently ordained Redemptorist priests. Dressed in mufti of course. According to the Deputy Editor of the Irish Catholic in the Irish Daily Mail today, RTE was flooded with complaints about the way they were treated, ambushing style of questioning, lack of respect etc.
Well, personally, I thought Tubridy wasn't hard enough. Firstly respect. If you want respect don't turn up for an interview dressed like someone going to a 1980s disco. And as for the questions. There were two simple questions that he wanted a yes/no answer to. 1) Do you support celibacy for priests? 2) Is sex outside marriage a sin?
Simple questions, simple answers - job done. Well no, simple questions, confused liberal answers.
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Catholic, Carmelite, Husband, Father, Reader of all sorts of books, Writer of occasional letters, Viewer of lots of TV and movies, Lover of tea, Hater of coffee. Anything I write is my own opionion and is not intended to represent the views of any organisation with which I have a connection. You can email me at "blog at live.ie" (replace the "at" with @). Don't be shy. To comment, click on the title of post. You have to include a name and email but fake ones work fine. Make sure there's an @ in the email.
