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ASA result of what I wrote in last week's column about Cardinal Dolan and clerical dress a local radio station invited me to discuss the topic on a lunchtime programme.
And then the following day I received a text message from an elderly lady, who is a friend of mine and very kind to me. But she always tells it as it is. In her text message she wrote: 'Why r U always giving out about the Catholic Church? What it needs now is support?'
Of course I listened to what she said. I always do. Indeed, I telephoned her but in the meantime something else had happened within the church that had annoyed me and her too, I think. I take my friend's point. But I certainly would hate to belong to a church of sycophants and 'yes-men'.
Intercom is a pastoral and liturgical resource magazine published by Veritas Group, an agency of the Irish Catholic Bishops' Commission on Communications. The magazine appears 10 times a year. Many priests use it as a help in preparing their liturgies and sermons. In a short question and answer section on topics for last Sunday's Mass...