Ryan Bridge: Churches risk coming across hypocritical

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Apr 27, 2025 · 2m · transcript

There was a priest on the news last night talking about homeless people the cost of buying a house in New Zealand.

This priest, who was all dressed up in his garb, then mentioned the fact there were marina berths down at the waterfront bursting at the seams with super yachts.

I thought that was such an odd thing to say.

I know the church's role is to help the poor. And they do that and I've seen them do that. And that's fantastic.

But to then also blame the wealthy for not helping the poor - is that helping? Or is that politics?

The church and state have been clashing of late.

We saw all…