still waiting, mate

Dear George
I must say I’m thrilled to find that this modest blog appears as number 3 in a google search when ‘dear george pell’ is typed in. Omnia vanitas est. Spots number 1 and 2 were taken up by a letter addressed to you almost two years ago, and apparently never responded to by you, from a relative of yours, Monica Hingston. I’m sure you remember that one, an impassioned questioning of your church’s attitude to homosexuality, prompted by one of those papal proclamations old John Paul liked to pump out. Monica, as you know, was a Sister of Mercy for twenty-six years (it’s my humble hope that she has finally seen the light), and at the time of her letter, had been in a happy homosexual relationship for nineteen years. I would add my urgings to hers. What have you to say to her and people like her about your church’s prejudice against her kind? Is your silence a matter of arrogance or of moral cowardice? Surely you have a response, even a stock one, since your bureaucracy has been defending its increasingly indefensible position for a long time now?