A Call To Action in Birmingham
Blogged by James Preece on 12th December 2012
From our ever growing "clergy in Birmingham who won't be exiled to several different continents" file...
How sad the Jesuits in Birmingham are hosting A Call To Action in Manressa House this weekend.
Manressa House is the home of the novitiate for the Provinces of Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands and North Belgium. Presumably this event is taking place with the agreement of the Provincial and the "Formators" at Manressa House.
How far they are from that unserving loyalty to the Church for which St Edmund Campion died.
St Ignatius must be weeping.
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Interesting that the three Oratorians who an official spokesman described as "entireley guiltless of any wrong doing whatsoever" are still in Canada, South Africa and... actually I have no idea where Fr Dermot Fenlon is.
Meanwhile men who run Manressa house are able to host "A Call To Action" (whose speakers have been known to say that "women’s ordination should be on the agenda") and then sleep soundly at night knowing there will be no knock on the door from Gareth Jones.
Would it be too much of a "conspiracy theory" to suggest that the orthodoxy of the former could be what got them in trouble, while the heterodoxy of the latter is what keeps them safe?
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Chrysostom said...
Sadly, in our days, virtues and vices are reversed even in The Catholic Church in such places as England where most of the bishops give such a poor lead. We have come to Shakespeare's
"Fair is foul and foul is fair"
and Marlowe's
"Evil be my good".
Our Lady Help of Christians - pray for us.
St Athanasius - pray for us
All Ye English Martyrs - pray for us.
St. Charles Lwanga and Companion Martyrs of Uganda, who died resisting homosexual rape - pray for us.
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shieldsheafson said...
Soc. And when the orator instead of putting an ass in the place of a horse puts good for evil being himself as ignorant of their true nature as the city on which he imposes is ignorant; and having studied the notions of the multitude, falsely persuades them not about "the shadow of an ass", which he confounds with a horse, but about good which he confounds with evil; what will be the harvest which rhetoric will be likely to gather after the sowing of that seed?
Phaedr. The reverse of good (?).
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Ora Pro Nobis said...
Some of us are now doing our best, within our own church of St. Mary's Louth, to challenge dissenting nonsense being spoken after Mass during coffee etc. It is the sort of disloyalty that these dissenting priest and deacons are also pushing on innocent and uncatechised minds.
I get particularly upset because these disloyal clergy do not help our efforts (or the efforts of other faithful Catholics around the country).
As far as I understand dissent against Church teaching is a mortal sin because it is an offense against faith. Has anyone pointed this out to the 'Call to Action Brigade?'
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Ora Pro Nobis said...
I have just sent a complaint to the contact address on the linked Jesuits page to request that the event is cancelled as soon as possible.
curia@jesuit.org.uk
I can only suggest others do the same. It only takes two minutes.
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Catherine said...
let us not forget that Gareth Jones and the Oratorians aided by Jack Valero on behalf of Ecc sq all acted against the "Birmingham Three" in the name of the Apostolic See which at this time is governed by the one who said the following in "Principles of Catholic Theology," after speaking of the “great tension and turmoil” in the Church, and of the demand by many of the faithful for “a clear drawing of lines,” and the inability of “the Pope and bishops as yet to decide in favour of such an action;” [Ratzinger] refers to this "inability" of the churchmen as a resentment “like an inward-growing boil on the ecclesial conscience” that “has created an allergy to condemnation, from which we can more readily expect an increase of the ill than its cure.” (because, as Ratzinger puts it) " it is a resentment that has grown up in the last half century because of innumerable faulty decisions, and above all because of the too narrow handling of Church discipline (in the past)”
Whether this 'resentment/inability' will ever in effect swamp out error, the Cardinal confined himself to the cautious statement:
“we shall have to see whether…this approach to discipline in matters of doctrine can serve as a model for the future.”
And let us not forget that the first person the Pope had a three hour private audience with days after hsi election was not the courageous leaders of the g;obal pro life movement nor bishops who support them but the infamous Hans Kung!
God bless the Pope always but God save the Church from the heresy of papalotry
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Sarah said...
Two and a half years on and I'm still scratching my head - why were the B3 thrown out of the Oratory? A quick look at the newsletters is interesting: this weeks is penned by Pushkin the cat himself - hardly going to stand up to the extraordinary and unprecedented challenges Catholics are facing here right now.
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Catherine said...
by my calculations (May 2010- Feb 2013) Fr Dermot Fenlon will have been in forced exile for 1000 days by February 5th 2013.
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