Posted on 04/02/2010 6:43:59 PM PDT by Steelfish
April 3, 2010 Archbishop On Papal Offer: ‘God Bless Them, I Don’t’
Ruth Gledhill
Like a Druidic emissary from Tuatha Dé Danaan, the mythic inhabitants of Ireland, the Archbishop of Canterbury will lob a spiritual depth charge at Pope Benedict XVI on Monday when he damns the Catholic Church in Ireland as having lost all credibility.
Dr Williams also reveals on the BBC Radio 4 programme Start the Week that he is withholding his blessing from Anglicans who choose to take advantage of the Pope’s offer of a special home in the Catholic Church for disaffected Anglicans. “God bless them. I don’t,” he says, witheringly.
What a contrast with the joyful ecumenical greetings between the Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie and Pope John Paul II during the last papal visit in 1982, when they entered Canterbury Cathedral together, greeted each other with the sign of peace, knelt in prayer before the nave altar and then moved to the high altar where they kissed the Canterbury Gospels, a gift from Pope St Gregory the Great to St Augustine.
This time, although Benedict’s visit has the status of a state and not a mere pastoral visit, his welcome from the primus inter pares of the much smaller and itself divided Anglican Communion will be less effusive.
Dr Williams has plenty of problems of his own. Next month the Episcopal Church of the US will consecrate its second openly gay bishop, Canon Mary Glasspool, as a bishop in the Los Angeles Diocese.
Dr Williams’s efforts to keep Anglicans united have succeeded to the extent that none quite knows if schism has occurred or not. New churches keep being formed, but to the extent that all 39 church leaders are expected to be invited to the next primates’ meeting, they are all still...
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Dr. Williams your church is dividing and you know how to stop it but can’t or won’t...God Bless You!!!
“I knew Archbishop Runcie and you, sir, are no Archbishop Runcie!”
It seems truly hypocritical for Rowan Williams to be so exercised over the Pope, while putting queers into positions of authority in his own church.
And, incidentally, presiding over the dissolution of his own church...
Pot - Kettle - Black
LOL How christian of him
“God bless them. I don’t,” he says, witheringly.”
Any “blessing” from this arch demon is exactly the opposite.
How true, a actual Christian Brother visits, and Williams slaps him verbally, but let his flock dissolve..no problem.
Rowan Williams is sort of a pathetic man, he tries to please people he shall never please by disdaining a Brother in the Faith.
Don’t throw stones unless you live in a glass house. Catholics can laugh at Anglicans over the gay bishop, but at least the Anglicans know how to oust a bishop for covering up a pedophile.
Dr. Williams the Holy Father doesn’t need the advise of someone of your ilk.
Dr. Williams has picked up PB Schori’s habits in the treatment of departing members of their constituency.
By the measure you mete so shall it be measured back to you.
I thought that all Bishops, be they Orthodox, Roman Catholic, or Anglican had to be UNMARRIED???
Ditch the wifey, Rowan, and try and restore what little shred of credibility that YOU have left.
The Anglican Communion has become a bigger scam than the Moonies.
Sickening.
The Anglican church has not a single leg to stand on with this issue. They are a homosexual church. If same-sex abuse happened, they’d simply call it a “marriage” and make the priest who did it a bishop.
Exactly right!
All I have to say is that Bernard Law is still a Cardinal and Charles Bennison is not even so much as a chalice bearer.
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