What is Your immediate Reaction.

[the_bob_delusion]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/catholic-priest-apologises-for-comments-about-about-jill-...

A CATHOLIC priest has reportedly told a primary school mass in Melbourne’s west Jill Meagher would not have been murdered if she had not been out so late.

Jill Meagher was raped and murdered while walking home after leaving a Brunswick pub at about 1.30am in September, 2012. According to reports, the priest made the comments to staff and students on Friday morning at St Christopher’s Primary School in Airport West while holding up Bayley’s picture in Friday’s newspaper and talking about murder and rape.

NOW.

[Anonymous]

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@tasfleur wrote:

I don't feel anything about the person who reported it to the media.  It must have upset them terribly and that was their reaction to it.

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too upset to consider the impact such media

report would have on the family.  ok.  gotcha.

[tasfleur]

I think it was more important that the priest should have realised what impact his words had.

I don't blame those who reported it to the media, though I wouldn't have done it myself.

Thankfully, the priest himself has now apologised for his "mistake" and is sorry.  I watched an interview he gave.

[Anonymous]

no one is blaming anyone else for what the

priest said.  

Thankfully, the priest himself has now apologised for his "mistake" and is sorry.  I watched an interview he gave.

what did he say?  

someone said he somehow tried to justify it.

how could he have possibly justified it ???

[tasfleur]

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/jill-meaghers-family-hits-back-at-priests-derogatory-comments-2015...

He is inverviewed in that link .... he didn't seem to be justifying it, just that he was sorry and that it was a mistake.

There is a longer version but I can't find it right now, but it is on the internet.

[*pepe]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

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@azureline** wrote:
You know what I don't get is.... why on earth was this made public? It was said in a church to 100 members.
Who would be mean spirited enough to tell it to the media and hurt her family like that?
What the priest said is for his conscience and should have been dealt with within the Church.Imo

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i didn't think of that but you're right.

whoever decided to take it to the media 

obviously didn't care how it would affect jill's

family.   shame.

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its a shame people are shooting the messenger.

Its a good thing that people have been made aware of what rubbish this priest spewed forth to his impressionable audience.

[Anonymous]

ok thanks.  seems his justification was that

he had only been in australia for a couple of

yrs and was not aware of the history behind jill's

murder.

maybe its a cultural thing and preaching in such

manner is acceptable in some place - it just seems

so incredibly inappropriate   

[Anonymous]

its a shame people are shooting the messenger.

Its a good thing that people have been made aware of what rubbish this priest spewed forth to his impressionable audience.

no one is doing that.

azuraline made a valid point.

its easy for the rest of us to say its good to know

what the priest said - i dont think jill's family needed

to hear it.

[tasfleur]

.... but that's reality unfortunately Julia.    While I can understand you would want to protect the family from further grief over the murder of their daughter, in this the 21st century, instant media seems to be the way people communicate now, be it social media or otherwise.

Personally, I don't particularly like it, but it seems to be the way it is for the forseeable future whether I like it or not, and whether I agree with it or not .. 

[*pepe]

it's unfortunate that jill's family had to hear about it, but had the priest not said it there would have been nothing to report - the blame for any upset to the family lies solely with the priest.

[azureline**]

The blame for any upset lies soley with the murderer himself, however, media does thrive on the perpetuation of it.

The homily was given at a mass for children and staff of a school.The priest is responsible for his poor choice of words, whatever they were.

How many of us as parents, or even our own parents, said similar when they/we, saw things like this in the news?

Don't go anywhere alone, especially after dark? in unsafe areas... etc etc.

Don't give bad people the opportunity.

I admit I said it to mine.