Dear Editor – In his letter to your paper, SS of 8/5/2017, I don’t see the connection between G Bruns of Marist House, Tanagai, in his concern over Camillus Koke’s call on the good parishioners of Makira to behave during the Archbishop’s visit and Bruns final statements.
I quote: “What does Catholic Media expects from the people of Makira? To carry the Archbishop around on a royal throne like High Commissioners of the colonial past and to fall down in adoration and sing: to you be the power and the glory?
“I hope and wish that the Archbishop behaves well as a true shepherd should and not like a hireling; but to serve the people of God and to not lard over them.” end of quote.
At least I can understand why Mr Koke made the call as a lay worker of Catholic Media at Holy Cross and naturally would like respect for the Archbishop’s visit but used the wrong term.
But G Bruns need to tell us a bit more of himself whether he is an expatriate or local, a priest, a religious brother, a deacon, a novitiate or a lay worker at Marist House in Tanagai, so we can fully appreciate his attack on the Archbishop.
Failure to do so gives me the notion that G Bruns final statements have the hallmark of “envy or unhappiness towards the Shepherd”.
Clement Kengava
St Joseph’s Moli Catholic Parish
Taro, Choiseul.