'Divine intervention'

Iran's President Khamenei declared Friday's election to be a fair one and welcomed Mr Ahmadinejad's victory as a 'divine intervention'. At least that was before the millions took to the streets and people are killed.

No doubt many people when they read that will smile at the idea of 'divine intervention'.

But isn't that exactly an expression used by all the churches. In the case of President Khamenei we see it as a some sort of clever ruse to calm people. We don't believe for a moment that the election or anything about it is linked to any form of divinity.

Surely it must be most dangerous to use the word 'divine'. And yet we traipse the word around with us with such certitude and sureness. It can lead to absurdity.

Fr Vincent Twomey is writing again about his links with the pope. Will someone please tell the man to give it a break. Who cares whether the pope knows him, taught him or whatever. And the way the newspapers keep repeating it is lazy and boring.

It's becoming something of an emptiness hearing high clerics comment on the past. It was their predecessors who were at the helm. Say the news had never become public would they be now, of their volition, publishing the information?

Anyone who knows the system of appointing bishops must recognise there is something greatly amiss within the Catholic Church.

As said before in this blog, any organisation that claims it knows the 'mind' of God and demands of its ministers they be celibate is walking on extraordinary fragile ground.