We've come a long way

1983: This year, breaking celibacy was quite understandable.

TV's popular romantic lead was Richard Chamberlain in The Thorn Birds, portraying a fictional Australian priest who had an affair with a married woman. Catholics protested because ABC aired the miniseries during Holy Week, and progressive opinion pish-tushed us.


2004: This year, breaking celibacy is an actionable tort.

Archdiocese pays hefty settlement to adult children whom priest fathered in illicit relationship. Any chance we could file a counterclaim against ABC and Colleen McCullough? A responsible novelist would have made the priest an obvious villain who gets sued in the end.

[Thanks, Dom.]

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On life and living in communion with the Catholic Church.

Richard Chonak

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