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I can't encompass everything today.
Turns out that the security app process for Canberra is SLOW. As in 4-6 weeks slow. So. We're looking at a job in a couple of months unless there's a way to fast-track it. But the job is still there. (Until it isn't; then IDEK.)
I won't lie, it's going to be tight and it'll put pressure on B1. So long as she and B2 stay healthy, then we're probably fine. Probably.
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George Pell, Archbishop of the Catholic church won his appeal against his charges of child sexual abuse in the High Court of Australia. He walks free.
Walks free is not the same as 'innocent'. 'Not guilty' means "not guilty beyond pretty much all certainty" and it's there to protect when people are possibly innocent. And yes, power and organisational religion intersect to mean the guilty powerful are more frequently declared 'not guilty' than the innocent average Jane accused. It's not a perfect system.
I think he did it, but that's not evidence. I think that he covered up for priests who did sexually abuse children in their car, and there's more evidence of that (as in, the priests have been legally tried and found guilty, but were shuffled on when evidence went to the church). Will they trial him on that point of being an accessory? I don't know.
What I do know is that it's nearly impossible to get a sexual assault case to stick, and particularly one where someone is powerful and entrenched in a power structure. And Pell's sentencing provided great comfort to survivors. So the acquittal yesterday (on a legal point, rather than on a point of evidence) will leave a lot of survivors who were abused by people they trusted hurting badly. And I join with Gosford Anglican to say "I hear you. I believe you. I love you."
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In case it's not obvious, I'm not sick and I'm not dead. The cold/sorethroat/snufflynose appears to be seasonal. I am feeling sliiiiightly short of breath, I'm always tired, and I have muscle aches all over, but that's probably the lack of sleep, the hockey drills, and the gardening I've been doing. I've had the flu before (last year? 2018? Don't remember now) and this is not even close.
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I'll do a cooking and gardening update post later. Maybe tomorrow.
Turns out that the security app process for Canberra is SLOW. As in 4-6 weeks slow. So. We're looking at a job in a couple of months unless there's a way to fast-track it. But the job is still there. (Until it isn't; then IDEK.)
I won't lie, it's going to be tight and it'll put pressure on B1. So long as she and B2 stay healthy, then we're probably fine. Probably.
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George Pell, Archbishop of the Catholic church won his appeal against his charges of child sexual abuse in the High Court of Australia. He walks free.
Walks free is not the same as 'innocent'. 'Not guilty' means "not guilty beyond pretty much all certainty" and it's there to protect when people are possibly innocent. And yes, power and organisational religion intersect to mean the guilty powerful are more frequently declared 'not guilty' than the innocent average Jane accused. It's not a perfect system.
I think he did it, but that's not evidence. I think that he covered up for priests who did sexually abuse children in their car, and there's more evidence of that (as in, the priests have been legally tried and found guilty, but were shuffled on when evidence went to the church). Will they trial him on that point of being an accessory? I don't know.
What I do know is that it's nearly impossible to get a sexual assault case to stick, and particularly one where someone is powerful and entrenched in a power structure. And Pell's sentencing provided great comfort to survivors. So the acquittal yesterday (on a legal point, rather than on a point of evidence) will leave a lot of survivors who were abused by people they trusted hurting badly. And I join with Gosford Anglican to say "I hear you. I believe you. I love you."
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In case it's not obvious, I'm not sick and I'm not dead. The cold/sorethroat/snufflynose appears to be seasonal. I am feeling sliiiiightly short of breath, I'm always tired, and I have muscle aches all over, but that's probably the lack of sleep, the hockey drills, and the gardening I've been doing. I've had the flu before (last year? 2018? Don't remember now) and this is not even close.
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I'll do a cooking and gardening update post later. Maybe tomorrow.
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Sorry to hear the job process is going to take so long :| I hope it goes as smoothly/fast as it can so that things can ease up on you & family.
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We'll be okay - more okay than some, at least. But it niggles at the brain...
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How are you doing at your church with 'social distancing'? I can't remember if I've seen a post from you about it - I may have missed it. For a while I haven't been checking my readlist every day.
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The quilting ladies were the ones who were the hardest to get to social distance, because several of them are elderly women who live alone and quilting is pretty much their only social contact, but they did it eventually. Now they're all making masks. One of them is the mother of our postmaster in town, so once she'd made enough masks for everyone she knew, she started taking them down to the post office for her son to give out to anyone who wanted one.
Ironically, I've been seeing my fellow pastors more often. We're having weekly zoom meetings for our cluster, organized by the bishop's office, plus other zoom meetings for specific stuff--churches with feeding ministries, or ideas about Holy Week, or technology ideas, or whatnot.