Silence of the clergy

EDWARD HORGAN (Irish Examiner letters, February 14) is squarely on the mark regarding clergy and silence in the face of political cowardice and atrocity.

Shhh... someone will notice we’ve lost our moral authority. Not that the clergy had any moral authority in the first place. With supreme power comes supreme corruption. The clergy and churches just about anywhere in Europe and the US have so enmeshed themselves with the politicians that any real distinctions have vanished.

It is the ordinary people who have been sold out. We bear the brunt of political incest and, of course, so do the innocents in faraway places such as Afghanistan and Iraq.

Illegal war, illegal detention, torture, violations of human rights, mass murder... we are all shamed by the crass actions of our politicians. If our holy men cannot stand and speak the plain gospel truth to the corrupt workings of power, then all of humanity is lost.

Don Nash

163 East Vine Street

Murray

Utah 84107

USA