text: Opportunities to repost these keep cropping up regularly anymore:
  
  Selections, taken from the book “Tim Unsworth”, a collection of his articles in NCR between 1982 and 2007, published by Acta Publications in 2008:
  
  "Bishops (and, sez I,  Red Birds)  break out in shingles in the face of ambiguity; laity live with it each day in their homes, jobs and social life.
  
  Chancery offices constantly view the faithful as so befuddled that, without unctuous instruction, they would confuse the holy water fountain with a birdbath."