This is what the men on Manus need, the church to live into our baptism. Forget the politics or right or left – we need the politics of grace that is our baptism.
Remember when you were an outsider, anxious and confused, constantly under the iron grip of those in power? Remember that, and in remembering it, be a different people.
We publicly declare that what we hold in common in this confession is threatened by the festering infection of Eurocentric white nationalism and white supremacy.