Apologies. We just couldn't resist!
You know, just for a moment, we genuinely thought that the Church of Pope Francis had finally gone into super-turbo-charged anthropocentricity...and perhaps you can forgive us for fearing that an inevitably humanist end-point had finally been reached.
But, phew, we now see that it's just the most deliciously ironic "Year of Mercy" graphic design blooper on our archdiocesan website.
That's all it is, isn't it?
Yeah, of course it is.
Isn't it?
Actually, you know on second, or third, thoughts, maybe...
Nah! Silly us. Of cooooourse it's just a beautiful blunder!
Hmm.
Maybe we'll put the kettle (*) on for a very-British-cup-of-tea-long-think about this one.
(* a whistle-on-the-stove one, of course; none of your post-conciliar electric kettles in these parts thank you very much!)
UPDATE (15th December, 2015):
Fear not - our worries have finally been allayed. For we have now found the "true logo" (below) which indeed proclaims a "Year of Mercy" not a "Year of Me" after all.
It would seem that in a lazy effort to simply squeeze the broader archdiocesan graphic into a one-size-must-fit-all, pre-determined box-shape on the archdiocesan website, the full extent of the logo-message went missing and what remained indicated something entirely different and not at all what the author intended...an over-emphasis on the "me" in "mercy".
We know, there are just layers-upon-layers of unintended irony there. But ultimately: never compromise or constrain the Faith; it just becomes all about you.
Oh Mersey, mercy, me!
