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The Bishop of Oslo still doesn’t know exactly what this Christmas will be like. Except he’s shooting down the street.
With a cross around her neck, Kari Veiteberg welcomes you to the Diocese of Oslo. It is a gray and wet Monday morning, forgotten streets and all sounds are shrouded in splashes. The bishop has just concluded a videoconference with the other ten bishops in the country. There certainly isn’t much light in the dark, even with all the Church leaders online.
– No, what should I say? We have wreaths, closed churches, and a priest strike underway now, just before Christmas. So it’s not going so well, Bishop Veiteberg says on the stairs.
For the first time in history, the Priests Association is on strike, it is about assuring priests of the current salary level.
– I support the right to strike, it is part of our democracy. But I’m worried.
He does not say more about it, because suddenly there is a smile and an emotion executed with a dialect that would make Ivar Aasen applaud:
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