Wednesday, January 1, 2014

John Banville on RTE Radio 1 on New Year's Day

John Banville featured on RTE Radio 1 this evening.

He told the story of his mother going to 'confession' and in the course of 'tittle tattle' she told the priest that she read 'Womans Own'.

He  told his mother to stop reading the magazine, which she did.

Listening to Banville, who was born in 1945, one can feel nothing but disgust for the behaviour of so many ministers of the Catholic Church and the power and control the church had over people.

He spoke of how politicians did as they were told by the church. But why did the politicians allow that to happen?

What at all is it about priesthood that allows this madness to happen. Still happening.

It's all so sad.

So, the question is, the jokers who told Mrs Banville not to read 'Womans Own', what are they doing today and how does the crazy behaviour manifest itself?

1 comment:

Póló said...

Some women were unfortunately given more directly life threatening advice in the confessional.

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