Tongue in cheek!

The Right Rev Cherry Vann is enthroned as Bishop of Monmouth.           Source: South Wales Argus

In an extraordinary moment of candour as the Dean of Monmouth, Lister Tonge, welcomed visitors to Newport Cathedral for the enthronement of Cherry Vann as the 11th bishop of Monmouth he said, "Don't be overwhelmed by any of the solemnity, we're certainly tongue in cheek about certain parts of it."

All of it would have been more appropriate. It sums up the Church in Wales.

Apologists' myopia

So far there is no evidence that Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil was crucified by ISIS on Good Friday as threatened. His fate is uncertain. But he is one of many. Others have been crucified. Muslim children are not exempt, 'crucified for not fasting during Ramadan'.

Women are routinely raped and sold into slavery yet people in authority continually make excuses.

Instead of relying on evidence fed to them of how wonderful this alien ideology is, apologists for 'the religion of peace' should open their eyes to the horrors that are being perpetrated around them.

Peaceful onlookers and those who look away after turning the other cheek are of no comfort to the persecuted.