On hearing the news from Australia of the decades of abuse carried

                       out by members of the Catholic Church, and reading of the two sisters 

                       one now dead, the other in need of permanent care.

      

     

      If I may be so bold

      to comment on your hats of gold

      to share a thought for what its worth

      on your oh so mighty reign on earth

      

      how come your priests

      in secret times

     

      were moved and moved

      despite their crimes?

      a new unknowing flock

      would have to suffer grief and shock

      a new unknowing child

      would feel a touch that was not mild.

      Is it because in your eyes

      only God can censure crimes?

      Is it because in your teaching

      God's judgement is so far reaching?

      Among the thousands from that land

      of red, red rock and golden sand,

      two girls suffered at your priests hands

      now one is damaged and in distant lands

      the other life could no more abide

      and chose the course of suicide,

      how that one mother must consider

      your pious empty mocking chatter,

      how she must forever care for one

      and remember the sad and tragic other.

      Thousands of children suffered there

      because God's servants did not care

      because the priests and bishops of the time

      were silent on this monstrous crime.

      Come Judgement Day I do desire

      that your God will send you

      to that land of fire

      where you shall have eternity

      to think upon youths misery,

      to ponder evil, wrongs and rights

      to suffer in the darkest nights.