Cardinal pursuit an exercise in vengeance

IT MAY have escaped the attention of those pursuing Cardinal Seán Brady but their sense of timing is as ill-placed as is their demand for revenge.

This week’s crude demands for his resignation, as it happens, are sandwiched between two highly relevant Gospel readings.

Last Sunday, the reading from the Gospel of Luke (15:1, The Prodigal Son) showed us how love and forgiveness crush bitterness and hatred, while next Sunday’s reading from the Gospel of John (8:1, Let he who is without sin ...) demonstrates how forgiveness and love crush hatred and bitterness, and replaces old law with a reminder that God is love.