"This can of course - though you may doubt it - apply to clerics as well. We do not on the whole bolt out of a night to commit acts of daring-do whenever some heinous crime is afoot. But in our fragmented society, where often the mad or the bad or both have nowhere to go for refuge but the rectory door, not a small number of stab-jacketless clergy have met their end answering the nocturnal bell." - My own thoughts some month ago.
"Father Paul Bennett, 59, was killed at St Fagan's Church in Trecynon, near Aberdare, on Wednesday afternoon." - The sad news that came through whilst I was away.
God grant eternal rest to his good soul and may light perpetual shine upon him. May his dear family be comforted in their terrible time of sorrow and loss.
And pray for his assassin; for Father Paul would not want it any other way.
And cry, my beloved country.
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