serving the faith communities of the Goulburn Valley
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died last week aged 90, was a man with a sense of irony. A few years ago he emailed his close friend Reverend Jerome Francis, now the Reverend at St Augustine’s in Shepparton, saying “God is very humorous”.
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Reverend Jerome Francis vividly remembers a protest in his home town in South Africa, marching down the street alongside fellow university students, all of them scared for their lives. His friend threw a stone and was bundled off into a police van. At any moment, he knew he could have been arrested or killed. That was many years ago during apartheid, a world away from where he is today.
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