Posted on 08/01/2019 6:01:56 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROCHESTER, England, July 29, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The second-oldest cathedral in England has become a source of controversy for announcing it will soon host a decidedly unconventional secular feature within its historic walls: a mini-golf course.
Founded in 604 AD, Rochester Cathedral is second in age among English churches only to Canterbury, and was consecrated by St. Augustine himself. Earlier this month, the cathedral’s current leadership announced it’s partnering with the Rochester Bridge Trust to temporarily install a “bridge-themed adventure golf course” in the Medieval Nave. Running through the month of August, the course is being billed as a free attraction to educate children about bridge construction and foster reflection on more metaphorical bridge-building.
St. John Fisher, martyr for the sanctity of marriage, was the Bishop of Rochester from 1504 to 1535.
“The course forms the centrepiece of a ‘Building Bridges’ theme running through the summer,” Rev. Rachel Phillips, Canon for Mission and Growth at Rochester Cathedral, explained. “As well as the physical bridge which has stood over the River Medway since Roman times, the invisible but equally historic links between the Cathedral and the surrounding community are also bridges of a kind; we hope that, while playing adventure golf, visitors will reflect on the bridges that need to be built in their own lives and in our world today.”
The cathedral promises that the golf course will not interfere with normal church services or functions:
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Glad to see Anglican churches finally being put to good use.
Better than it becoming a mosque.
No real issue here since the CofE has basically become a homo-left-secularist amusement park.
Don’t they know that golf makes people curse?
Muslims the world over (but most esp in the UK) are laughing their arses off.
“The cathedral promises that the golf course will not interfere with normal church services or functions”
One would hope it does interfere with CoE normal church services and functions, particularly those led by the chick.
In many eyes God is truly dead. The Church is a rapidly dying institution. Most don’t know the difference between church and god.
It’s only fair that snooker and nine ball get a shot at it. You could get quite a few tables in this thing.
The St. Augustine in question is Augustine of Canterbury, an Italian missionary and not Augustine of Hippo, the great Christian theologian, who died in 430.
Thank you for explaining that. I am really surprised life site news would not know or bother to mention the distinction.
Life Site is borderline secular anti-catholic site. They DO have a “catholic” section, but still...
Why would they want to separate anything that COULD cast a better light on “their enemy”?
Well, that’s *one* way to get those Sunday morning golfers to come to Church...
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