Nobody is going to do anything about anything?
Blogged by James Preece on 2nd October 2009
Fr Ray Blake wants to know why western governments don't do something about the terrible human rights abuses in China.
I don't want to underplay the seriousness of the situation, but which is easier...
A) For heavily indebted western governments with a need for cheap electronics to attempt to push around the worlds largest superpower over which they have no authority or control and which could very well turn nasty and lead to world war three?
or...
B) For Archbishop Vincent Nichols to do something about Terry Prendergast, the director of Catholic Marriage Care who said that Marriage makes no difference to Children?
Because if the Archbishop of Westminster himself cannot do anything about a member of an organisation of which he is the president, it's a bit rich for anybody in the Church to expect western governments to do something about a nation of more than a billion people on the other side of the world.
In other words: When you turn a blind eye to Terry Prendergast, we as a Church lose the ability to criticise anybody for blind eye turning.
Nice one.
