"I Wonder What Christ Would Make Of It"

I don't, Sister Myra Poole. Nor do you, of course. You assume that He would make of it as you do. Whereas I know that He would and does make of it as His Body has always done and as His Vicar on Earth duly does. At least the nun-ness on which you and yours trade has been exposed by your appearance on television in entirely secular garb. That was why Lavinia Byrne almost never broadcast except on the radio. And I hate to put it as bluntly as this, but you look about 70, if not older. As, with your views, you must be. People whose heyday was between 1960 and 1980 are hardly in the first flush of youth now.

But they do enjoy never-ending privileged access to the Boomer Broadcasting Corporation, which is making a fuss about the absence of any formal requirement to report to the Police allegations of child abuse, actually allegations of sex between men and teenage boys, a form of behaviour routinely glorified on British television and of which the sort of people who run it demonstrate not the slightest disapproval in practice. What about where there simply aren't any Police? What about the Police in Burma? For that matter, what about the Police in Britain, who long ago ceased to enforce the age of consent from 13 upwards? As with their non-enforcement of the drug laws, one really does have to ask for whose benefit that is.