Bishop’s intercession - He’s right: materialism is empty
It would be too easy to imagine him as some latter-day persecutor of jazz bands; the red-faced cliche, driving couples from the bushes around the summertime dance halls of Ireland, swinging hurley.
It is a pity that the archbishop mixed important messages about the emptiness of materialism, the dreadful demands inherent in a voracious consumer society and our soaring suicide rates with an attack on sections of the relatively harmless entertainment business.
