From Fr Barry John Reabow SAC, Queenstown
As a parish priest, I feel it is not the time in the present crisis situation created by the long Post Office strike to claim for unsold copies of The Southern Cross.
There is a greater value at stake here: the voice of the Church through the printed media. We, at the cathedral of Christ the King in Queenstown, have probably lost heavily owing to late-arrivals, or no arrivals at all, but this parish will not claim for any unsold copies.
If we have had financial losses, then The Southern Cross as such has certainly had much heavier losses than we have had. Our prayer is: may this senseless strike at Sapo never be able to crush The Southern Cross into giving up.
May God continue to bless you in your frustrating work at this time, and may he send us better days. And may this fantastic little paper — which I personally love more than I can express, right from the days when I was still a kid at school — regardless of difficulties, be blessed and go from strength to strength.
Anybody who does not love this paper is lacking in at least part of the love he or she should have for the holy Church.
May God’s super-abundant blessings be upon you all.
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