The rumours have been confirmed. Pope Francis evicts his US critic, Cardinal Raymond Burke, from the Vatican.
A useful commentary of events leading to the eviction of the pope's "enemy" is provided at the beginning of the above podcast video.
Pope Francis has attracted much criticism from commentators. Traditionalist Anglicans have looked on in bemusement as he appears to be guiding the Catholic Church along the path to ruin, the path already trod by the Episcopal Church in the US, the Church of England and the Church in Wales, among others.
Having sown the seeds of hope for change among revisionists, the Vatican is trying to draw a line on women’s ordination and homosexuality in new letter to German bishops.
That will not stop revisionists from pecking away as they seek to make the Church conform to the pattern of this world rather than be transformed as the Anglican Church in the West has witnessed
What hope can there be for a Church when Christians who practice their faith by obedience to the word rather than apostates are regarded as the enemy?
"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church"(Tertullian). Also Mt 5 v 11-12. Persecution makes for a smaller purer church. The Church survived Honorius and Liberius, Alexander IV and Julius II. It will survive Francis. Another Benedict is possible. Not for nothing does Duffy entitle his history of the Popes "Saints and Sinners".
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ReplyDeleteAs the Pope clears the Vatican of some less than helpful priests, the Church-in-Wales has just confirmed that it remains a welcoming depository for questionable clergy who have realised they have no future in England ... of which there are many.
Jarel Robinson-Brown who worships himself before worshipping God now appointed to Llandaff. Diocese of London will be delighted to see him off ... but what possessed Llandaff to take the risk of this twerp whose main income is from using his clerical collar to promote his own Media career. Bishop Stallard outpours that he's a brilliant theologian. Eh? She's hardly an expert in the field and certainly no judge.
I have little interest in who the Pope sacks: I am worried about who the CinW employs.
I'm slightly puzzled here. I knew Jarel as a Methodist in Cardiff; since then he's been around, most recently at St Botolph's in London. So where is he going in Llandaff? - I thought he'd only recently been appointed an Honorary Canon at Bangor?
ReplyDeleteSee https://twitter.com/ScholarPriest/status/1728764995217842390
DeleteSD - It appears from his twitter/"x" account that Jarel is going to St German's in Roath in Cardiff which is a huge church designed by Bodley. It has been staffed in recent years by SSC clergy. A few years ago in Holy Week the late Bishop David Thomas presided at the Chrism Mass for the traditional Catholic clergy and laity in that great Shrine of the faith. For some years those same faithful have had to get on coaches to leave Wales in order to go to Chrism Masses in England.
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ReplyDeleteActually, 'Old Bill' told me; but for confirmation, it's there on the Llandaff Diocese blogsite. Takes post by Easter apparently. If he is an Hon. Canon at Bangor ... among ranks and ranks of others recently 'installed' by the insecure ap Rhys Evans to boost his pathetic belief that he has friends, then no one up here has seen him. That said, Bangor congregants don't see much of their 'Chapter' canons either; they tend to stay well clear of the toxic mix of incense and sheer nastiness.
God help St. German's church and parish if that idiot has been appointed.
ReplyDeleteWhat has happened to Father Philim?
Bewildered
Phelim
DeleteGone to be Area Dean in King's Norton, Birmingham, I think.
DeleteA great loss to the Diocese but good for him, and at least he and his family have escaped the filth and stench of the Llandaff swamp.
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ReplyDeleteFYI: https://www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-events/archbishop-of-wales-announces-historic-appointments-at-cathedral/
ReplyDeleteDuring this four day pause in correspondents' comments ref AB's blog, I have to wonder just how many Methodists are now absorbed into the priesthood of the Church-in-Wales as defectors of their denomination to the greater perks of stipend, stipend-pensions and limelight of C-in-W livings. The greatest turncoat of course is the Sub-Standard-Dean of Bangor and former Methodist (still preaching his version of methodism from the pulpit), now the Rev 'Canon' Jarel at St. German's Cardiff and the Rev. Neville Naidoo, again recent to Bangor cathedral. How many more are there that I and other might not know of. More to the point, is this the Church-in-Wales's funny way of admitting that the 'graduates' of its own academically poor college for the training of priests is so failed that it has to look elsewhere. But why is it that former Methodist devotees now seem to be drawn to the higher Anglo-Catholic fraction rather than our own traditional Welsh form of Anglican worship. Baptist Trainfan might have ideas ... I'm curious.
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