Easter, like Christmas, is usually a quiet news time when papers feel they should report something religious. But this Easter there was quite a bit of news around anyway, much of it about Christians getting killed.Lest the massacres dampen the Easter-egg hunt, The Times leavened the mix with some religiose human-interest stories. It has a thing about singing priests. Now I do not fear and loathe singing priests as some people do clowns (a hatred they like to call coulrophobia, a word the Oxford English Dictionary has not yet registered), but singing priests fill me with the same gloomy embarrassment as nuns playing football.The Times happily filled page three on Maundy Thursday with a report about Fr Ray Kelly from Oldcastle, Co. Meath, who has just released an album that “went plat
09 April 2015, The Tablet
Singing priests fill me with the same gloomy embarrassment as nuns playing football
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