@polksaladallie wrote:
If his aim was to talk to children about their welfare, it should not have been at a primary school. A secondary school would be appropriate, and the lesson should have been to do whatever you can to get home safely.
Nobody's name should have been mentioned, unless he had been asked. Nowadays children are aware of incidents in the news, and often the school is called upon to deal with questions in a counselling session.
It seems that was not the aim.
A Catholic Church official has apologised after a priest told parishioners that had murdered Melbourne woman Jill Meagher's faith been stronger, she would have been "home in bed" and not walking down a street on the night she was brutally raped and killed.
The controversial homily was reportedly delivered during an end-of-term service at St Christopher's Primary School in Airport West on Friday when the priest held up a newspaper article with an image of Ms Meagher's killer, Adrian Bayley.
Radio station 3AW reported that the priest made the comments to an audience of about 100 people, saying that if Ms Meagher had been "more faith-filled", she "would have been home in bed" and "not walking down Sydney Road at 3am".
