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“… I do not support this action, and I ask all Clergy to refrain from attending or promoting something that will place people’s safety and health at jeopardy, and which may be an incitement to illegal activity.(His Grace fails to note that protesting is now legal in Melbourne; the idea of “jeopardising health and safety” is taken straight from the hyperbolic COVID narrative.)Without doubt, there is much to be concerned about the policy and legislative agenda of the Government, and measured steps ought – and are – to be taken to challenge this.(The bill will be debated in the Upper House next week, leaving the Archbishop with little time for his “strategic silence” to go into effect. Are negotiations going on “behind the scenes”? One would hope that this is more substantial than giving Dan Andrews a quick text – will he include a sad faced emoji for emphasis??)However, I am concerned that the planned form of action is based on misinformation and half-truths that have fostered a sense of fear and pastoral crisis.(This bit is quite intriguing: what is the misinformation and the half-truths?Since when was it irrational to fear tyranny?Is the “pastoral crisis” the faithful’s sense that segregation does not belong in a Catholic church? Or maybe it’s one of those other pastoral crises – like the one where the good priests are bullied by their capricious bishop or is it the one where faithful Catholics are ignored in favour of wiccan nuns and boomer parish workers?)What might seem an action of prayer will, in the hands of the media, become a political event that will only generate further confusion and animosity.”(The Archbishop obviously hasn’t seen the media’s coverage of Catholics at other Freedom protests. So far, the media has shown nothing but respect and a genuine desire to know the motivation of Catholics for attending.In any case, since when has it been the role of the Church to fear the media’s often-bigoted narrative? Since when does the Church absolve Herself from relevant political protest?Would praying for the defeat of the Ottomans at the Battle of Lepanto have been too political for this bishop?)