[Jan Fisher]

The outpouring of public respect following the death of Father Bob Maguire has been uplifting.

Too often Australians revere ‘heroes’ who do not deserve the title and bring nothing more to the public arena than their fame. I’ll put world-famous fashion models in this category.

Father Bob instead walked the walk. He grew up in abject poverty with a violent and abusive father and was an orphan by age 15 and that tough background developed his compassion instead of sending him down the same path.

How sad is it that he is an exception in the modern church instead of the rule.

Should there be more Father Bobs in the world?

[Allen McMonagle70]

There are good people in the church and in the general community. The sad fact is the media ignore them. There is no “press” in reporting on some lives saved by a firey or a police officer or an ambulance driver or a nurse in one of our neglected health facilities (sometimes called hospitals), or lives saved by a highly skilled volunteer counselor dealing with the tsunami of mental health issues in our stupid woke society. I think Father Bob was an enigma in Catholic church circles and he should be canonised as Australia’s second saint.

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