The Vatican is entering the big-money video-clip industry with its own stars to rival the best the pop world can offer: the Pope and Mother Teresa. -- The Straits Times, 3rd August 1998
Lord, in this MTV age
when image calls the shots
and music alone atones
for footage
incomprehensibly cut
in the name of art -would you have done the same,
auditioned your parables
under the harsh eye of the camera,
rendering the divine audible
like so many beats
of the drum ?In the ratings game,
what redeems –
the desert messenger wailing in vain
for a listener,
of the hip need for soundbites
turning the Mass, Media ?
Published in I Watch the Stars Go Out (1999)
