Posted on 04/07/2020 7:14:57 PM PDT by marshmallow
'To have the churches closed at this particular place seems to me to be the height of irresponsibility.'
UNITED KINGDOM, April 6, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A former Anglican bishop and chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has accused Catholic and Anglican bishops of being responsible for the closure of churches in the U.K. during the nationwide lockdown in response to the coronavirus.
Gavin Ashenden, who was received into the Catholic Church in December last year, told the Sunday edition of The Nigel Farage Show on LBC that he is “halfway between cross and distraught” at the church closures.
“To have the churches closed at this particular place seems to me to be the height of irresponsibility. And what makes me cross is, it’s not the government that did it. It was the church leaders, the bishops of both, I’m afraid, the Catholic and also the Anglican churches who I think in order to, well, who knows what their motives were?” Ashenden said.
Ashenden said the church closures deprived people of the opportunity to be “fully responsible” in a time of serious tragedy.
“It’s not just our lives; it’s the lives of people we love — the whole community has been devastated by this, and people will want to pray and to try to make sense of it,” he continued.
“We’re meaning-seeking creatures, human beings, we have to live with meaning, and when a pandemic like this strikes us, it undermines the meaning that we thought we had, and we need to go deeper. That’s what the Church is for.”
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