Walk, trot, gallop – what a knight!
Unlike our former Prime Minister and member for the Sydney northern beaches seat of Warringah, Tony Abbott, Outsider is not someone who has seen particular value in knighthoods or other regal honours.
But, as he learned while preparing for last week’s Financial Services Council Leader’s Forum in Melbourne, there are advantages for those fortunate enough to be made a Papal Knight – not that Outsider was aware he had met many such people.
But it turns out that one of the keynote speakers at the FSC forum, former HIH Royal Commissioner, Justice Neville Owen, is a Papal Knight, owed in large part to his chairmanship of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council established by the Catholic Bishop’s
Conference to oversee the Catholic Church’s response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Now, Outsider is not at all sure what Prince Phillip gained from his Australian knighthood granted thanks of Right Honourable Tony Abbott, but he does know what Justice Owen has gained out his Papal recognition.
Turns out, that apart from the honour of being so awarded, Justice Owen is also entitled to ride a horse through the Vatican’s St Peter’s Square – so clippity clop.
There is no mention of whether such ride should be taken at the walk, the trot or the gallop.
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