Hip-hop style diplomacy

What I want to know is, how many of the bishop’s wives bonk their beloved over the head with a frying pan on his returning home late after too much partying and too many martinis.

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The career of Bishop Catherine Roskam of the Diocese of New York has been built on her skills as a cross-cultural ambassador for the modern Episcopal Church.

She led the International Concerns Committee of her denomination’s executive council, helped create her diocese’s Global Women’s Fund and has worked as a consultant on issues of cultural sensitivity. In some circles, she is known as the bishop who dared to rap during a “Hip-Hop Mass” a few years ago in the Bronx.

“My sistas and brothas, all my homies and peeps, stay up — keep your head up, holla back and go forth and tell it like it is,” proclaimed the bishop, in her benediction.

“We have 700 men here. Do you think any of them beat their wives? Chances are they do,” argued Roskam, in The Lambeth Witness, a daily newsletter for gay-rights supporters in the 77 million-member Anglican Communion.

“The most devout Christians beat their wives. … Many of our bishops come from places where it is culturally accepted to beat your wife (an excellent illustration from Catherine on how to demonstrate cultural sensitivity). In that regard, it makes conversation quite difficult (I might add that this is the only known example of a bishop – while still living – having difficulty in conducting a conversation).”

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