STEAM should be coming from the ears of Catholics – and people of all denominations – in Queensland.
And they must do whatever it takes to get the Immigration Department to change their mind and let a mother get to Brisbane to see her son be ordained a priest.
I was livid when I read a story in the Melbourne mainstream media last weekend telling how the South Sudanese mum of Holy Spirit Seminary student Ladu Yanga is being stopped from entering Australia because he cannot find his birth certificate.
Minutes after reading the story, I visited a busy shopping centre, and saw two lovely and softly spoken women rattling tins for the annual Salvation Army appeal.
“South Sudan,” they replied when I asked where they were from.
Queenslanders, make a noise and get the Immigration Department to grow some common sense and human decency.
PETER SWEENEY
Berwick, Vic
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