{"id":1759,"date":"2006-03-06T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/church-mouse.lanuera.com\/IV\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2006-03-06T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-06T11:33:00","slug":"bloody-aboriginals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=1759","title":{"rendered":"Bloody Aboriginals"},"content":{"rendered":"
Almost 2 years ago (Wednesday 17 March 2004) Prindiville’s handling of a request to hold the funeral of Aboriginal Elder, Betty Roberts, led one of her daughters to ask “Wasn’t that terrible? Is he always like that?”\n<\/div>\n
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A couple of Sundays ago (26 February 2006), Jonathan was delivering a thoughtful reflection<\/a> on the day’s readings while Prindiville and a seminarian sidekick sat on their thrones behind the altar.\n<\/div>\n
An obviously distraught Cindy, one of the Koori regulars, approached the Neocat priest with hands outstretched; he shooed her away awkwardly. She then tried the seminarian, who refused to move his arms which were folded across his chest in prayerful supplication.\n<\/div>\n
Cindy had come to ask the community to pray for her brother Dwayne, in hospital with cancer. The Neocat response was rejection.\n<\/div>\n
During the Prayers of the Faithful Len expressed his sadness at this racist display, and prayed for the Spirit to descend upon Prindiville and his cohorts to open their hearts.\n<\/div>\n
At the end of Mass, Alan tried to raise the issue of planning for the Message Stick (see Brisbane Archdiocese welcomes Message Stick<\/a>); Prindiville refused to engage in any discussion and hurried from the altar.\n<\/div>\n
When Tom followed him into the sacristy to query his behaviour, the caring pastor responded with utterances about “bloody Aboriginals”.\n<\/div>\n

The community continues to await the descent of the Spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost 2 years ago (Wednesday 17 March 2004) Prindiville’s handling of a request to hold the funeral of Aboriginal Elder, Betty Roberts, led one of her daughters to ask “Wasn’t that terrible? Is he always like that?” ====== A couple of Sundays ago (26 February 2006), Jonathan was delivering a thoughtful reflection<\/a> on the day’s readings while Prindiville and a seminarian sidekick sat on their thrones behind the altar. An obviously distraught Cindy, one of the Koori regulars, approached the Neocat priest with hands outstretched; he shooed her away awkwardly. She then tried the seminarian, who refused to move … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}