What might 1.6 billion children make of yesterday’s Gospel?

In the Gospel read in the liturgy yesterday St Mark tells the story of how Jesus heals the little 12-year-old daughter of a synagogue official.

There are 34 million children refugees in the world.

There are 1.6 billion children living in conflict zones.

Approximately 12.3 Irish children leave school after the Junior Cert. That works out at approximately 8,000 children every year, in 10 years that’s 80,000 children.

And all the pious words that will have been spoken yesterday.