Catholic theologian Vincent Twomey recently commented that the reason his church had fallen from its perch was because it had stopped thinking.

The problem in the Greek economy came to a head because of a failure by successive governments there to collect taxes and a reluctance on the part of the electorate to contribute towards austerity measures.

THE ongoing media exposure of virtually every agency of church and state, revealing a shambles of ineptitude, dishonesty and wrongdoing, is indicative of a country whose morality in high places is confined to feathering one’s own nest, blowing one’s own trumpet and protecting one’s own party or institution at any cost.