{"id":625,"date":"2007-03-13T19:53:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T19:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanuera.com\/cmwp\/?p=625"},"modified":"2007-03-13T19:53:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T19:53:21","slug":"sunday-11-mar-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 11 Mar 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>ssistant pp Mendes was hamming his way through another inane and barely intelligible homily as a clearly unhappy J&#8230;e entered the Church.<\/p>\n<p>She quietly approached a few of the regulars and told them that Mendes had insulted her and a group of Aboriginal friends by calling them <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">heathens<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>She asked why this should be so and added <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&quot;you&#8217;ve got no idea how he treats us when none of you whities are around&quot;<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>No one could answer on behalf of the one charged with her pastoral care, so, fed up with the shabby, abusive treatment to which she and her friends had been subjected, J&#8230;e decided to confront the Neocat &quot;priest&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1057\" height=\"247\" width=\"300\" alt=\"\" class=\"imageLbordered\" src=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/main_P1010225a.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Immediately after Communion, she approached the altar with Thelma by her side and quietly addressed Mendes, who laughed and said &quot;Pray for me&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Anne called out from the congregation: &quot;She asked why you called her a heathen, what&#8217;s your explanation?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The &quot;pastor&quot; smirked &#8211; apparently unwilling or unable to rationalise his behaviour.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\"><strong>Note: Sunday 18 March 2007<\/strong><br \/>\nPrindiville claimed that Mendes had been set up &#8211; that he couldn&#8217;t have called anyone a &quot;heathen&quot; because he had never heard the word before and didn&#8217;t know what it meant. He further alleged that the Community had arranged the confrontation.<br \/>\nPerhaps Neocats can&#8217;t imagine that &quot;heathens&quot; might actually be capable of thinking and acting for themselves.\n<\/div>\n<div clear=\"both\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant pp Mendes was hamming his way through another inane and barely intelligible homily as a clearly unhappy J&#8230;e entered the Church.<\/p>\n<p>She quietly approached a few of the regulars and told them that Mendes had insulted her and a group of Aboriginal friends by calling them heathens.<\/p>\n<p>She asked why this should be so and added &quot;you&#8217;ve got no idea how he treats us when none of you whities are around&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>No one could answer on behalf of the one charged with her pastoral care, so, fed up with the shabby, abusive treatment to which she and her &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=625\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morsels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}