Posted on 10/18/2021 7:14:51 PM PDT by marshmallow
Father Jeffrey Woolnough decided to lead a public recitation of the rosary after being denied access to minister to Sir David Amess, who was murdered yesterday afternoon. 'I thought: if I can’t go in, then Our Lady has to go in,' Father Woolnough told LifeSiteNews.
UPDATED: ESSEX, U.K. (LifeSiteNews) — A British M.P who was stabbed to death was unable to receive the last rites yesterday as police would not allow a Catholic priest to access the crime scene. Essex police has not yet made known the reason why.
According to an article published in the Daily Mail on Friday, as news broke that Conservative British M.P., Sir David Amess, had been stabbed, Father Jeffrey Woolnough made his way to the crime scene to administer the last rites. He found the area cordoned off by the police who did not allow him to access to the crime scene. Sir David Amess, a Catholic, eventually died of his injuries without receiving the last sacraments of the Church.
At around 12:05 on Friday, Amess was attacked by a 25-year-old man, and stabbed multiple times as he was holding a meeting with constituents in Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Attempts by paramedics to stabilize him did not succeed and at 2:39 p.m, Essex Police announced that Amess had died at the scene.
The alleged attacker has now been identified as Ali Harbi Ali, a British national of Somali origin.
The Daily Mail later reported that, as word of the stabbing spread, “a Roman Catholic priest, Father Jeffrey Woolnough, arrived at the police cordon stretching across tree-lined Eastwood Road North, offering to administer the last rites to the devoutly Catholic MP.” However, the Essex police didn’t allow him to approach the dying M.P, arguing that they could not let him enter an......
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“The road to hell is paved with the skulls of erring priests, with bishops as their signposts.” St. John Chrysostom
They traded their brown shirts for black/blue.
How utterly tragic & wrong.
If the MP had already died, then it’s a moot point.
At our Catholic hospital the overnight priest would get pissed at my folks who called him in because the patient was dead by the time they got in. It was the only time I ever yelled at a priest. There is nothing so prissy as an old priest missing their beauty sleep.
God knows his heart and will see that justice is done, no matter what any clergy can or cannot do.
Even if a place is in lockdown, the priest is still allowed to administer the Sacrament of the Sick (Last Rites).
The police were wrong here.
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