Saturday 9 February 2008

The Services and Prayers of a False Religion

Give me Benedict XVI any day before the Archbishop of Canterbury. At least he knows his Catechism.

4 comments:

Sackerson said...

I don't know what the present incumbent stands on or for. Is it that he goes unreported and misreported? Is there any real connection between the modern prelates and Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley? Is bonhomie enough?

hatfield girl said...

The bedrock of Catholic teaching is obedience; learning is fine, debate entertaining and reinforcing of understanding and commitment, positively encouraged, but in the end what the Church teaches is required.

It does make life simple and, for many, comforting in its all-embracing refuge when faced with issues beyond an individual's competence, for whatever reason, to solve. Much has been written about being utterly bereft by loss of faith and the consequent withdrawal of obedience followed by isolation and loss of bearings in many aspects of life. That experience is often confused with the ceasing to practice the rituals of the Faith, or the rejection of some of the more difficult to bear, or cruel to others, teachings; sort of partial disobedience. There's a lot of it about.

But when a prelate of the church, even a part of the church currently separated, puts forward views that are complex, sophisticated, subtley argued, insidious and difficult to refute and immensely wide-ranging in effect, it is obedience rather than refutation that gives the first drawing-together, like iron filings to a magnet, in the striking down of such a threat to all.

For the moment, until something individual can be organized, Catholicism can stand against the multiculturalists attempts to destroy culture. That lightest of blows by the Cardinal Archbisop of Westminster on a young child's face at confirmation, carried more than I had understood until now.

Bonhomie is irrelevant to what the Archbishop of Canterbury is wakening. Not least the enormous authority that his evil expressions have accorded to Rome.

Anonymous said...

I am so disappointed in my church, (Yes, I am lapsed Anglican - as many are, but I wont be going back t if Williams represents what it has become.

Williams is an arse, mealy mouthed multi-cultural turd, without any courage of conviction of what he has said. Indeed Sackerson what has becomne of the church of Ridley and Latimer - I just hope the candle keeps burning..

I fear that we are lead by idiots who do not represent our views. As for Benedict he may not be as robust as required- look at the backtracking and cosying up over Byzantine quote

hatfield girl said...

Benedict didn't back track after Regensburg, Hovis. He regretted if any had taken offence that sprang out of their misunderstanding. His lecture on faith and reason should be read in preference to Canterbury's drivel on multicultural politics, which is not his to commend when speaking ex officio. Some priest.

Perhaps Anglicans might go back to their rituals and their churches, even if they are privately considering the nature of their beliefs. The words and the music and the solidarity with so much of western culture make it worth while. And terrific hymns.
Just reading the book of Common Prayer raises the word count of any standard English vocabulary, let alone raising some complicated issues to think over.