The Church does not need a state in order to be the Church, any more than the Jews need a state in order to be the Jews. Whether or not they like to admit it, theirs is a nuisance to them. And whether or not She likes to admit it, Hers looks increasingly like a nuisance to Her.
But in discussing the strange case of the Pope's butler and all that, as if there were nothing else to report, The World at One had on Robert Mickens, er, "balanced" by Michael Walsh. It was a nice day out for the residents of the Schillebeeckx Memorial Home for Bewildered Old Dissidents.
Oh, well, there is no point asking the BBC for someone orthodox. We all know whom we should therefore to endure. Any of my several regular readers in the belly of the beast, I have the names and contact details of a large number of potential contributors to Thought for the Day, and of potential panellists on The Moral Maze who might still deserve the billing of "Catholic writer" by the time that the 45 minutes were up.
For that matter, I have those of several such potential panellists who are neither hardline neoconservatives nor activists within the several continuity organisations of the Revolutionary Communist Party, which latter not infrequently occupy two of the four seats on the panel while also providing at least one witness into the bargain.
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