Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Melissa Kite: my car crash of an evening discussing Catholicism

Credit: BERTHOLD STADLER/AFP/Getty Images 
issue 12 October 2013

‘Excuse me. I couldn’t help overhearing your conversation and I have to tell you, as a Catholic, I’m offended.’

The girl, a complete stranger, had walked up to our restaurant table to inform us she had been insulted while eavesdropping on us. I stared at her, not knowing whether to apologise or tell her to go away and mind her own business.

I had been sitting at my favourite table in my favourite restaurant with my two favourite people having a spirited supper discussion with them about whether or not I, as a Roman Catholic, bore any responsibility for what the Catholic Church…oh, you know. Need I go into it again? I would really rather not. Once was bad enough. To be honest, it was a total car crash of an evening.

The problem was not the rights and wrongs of organised religion, but the fact that my sugar level was at a catastrophic low.

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