This is edition 2025/168 of the Ten@10 newsletter.
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This is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.
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1. Who Will Educate These Meddlesome Priests?
Chris Trotter
- ♟️ Childlike Politics – Clergy protesting against Israel are likened to children playing chess: aware of tactics but lacking strategic foresight.
- ✝️ Misreading Jesus – Jesus avoided political confrontation with Rome, urging people to “render unto Caesar” and focus on God, not earthly powers.
- 🕊️ Questionable Priorities – Priests demanding sanctions on Israel may care more about political action than their spiritual obligations to God.
- ⚖️ One-Sided Condemnation – The protests ignore Hamas’s violence, hostage-taking, and use of civilians as shields while blaming Israel alone.
- 🌍 Selective Outrage – Global conflicts causing equal or greater suffering, such as massacres of Christians in Congo, receive little attention.
- 🙏 God’s Perspective – The author doubts God singles out Israel, seeing all suffering and sin everywhere, not just in Gaza.
- 🔥 Vengeance Belongs to God – Scripture reserves judgement and punishment for God, warning priests not to demand earthly retribution.
- 📖 Faith over Politics – True Christian duty is spiritual obedience, not belief that human governments can deliver divine justice.
- 🏰 Meddlesome Priests – Echoing King Henry II’s complaint about Thomas Becket, the writer labels New Zealand’s protesting clergy as politically intrusive and poorly schooled in their own faith.
