Posted on 10/16/2025 10:50:37 PM PDT by Morgana
Dame Sarah Mullally was named the first female archbishop of Canterbury last week, and received immediate criticism over her apparent support for abortion.
Key Takeaways:
* The Church of England announced its first female archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally.
* Mullally has made comments that indicate support for abortion despite the Anglican Church's pro-life stance.
* She has been criticized for "scandalous views on abortion" and has also said she believes in "choice" for parents of preborn children with Trisomy 18.
The Details:
The Church of England has maintained a largely pro-life stance, believing that abortion should be allowed in cases related to the life of the mother. It would be expected, then, that any archbishop would have opinions on abortion in line with the Church's teachings. However, Mullally has indicated that she believes in "choice," and she has been criticized for "scandalous views on abortion."
Earlier this year, she said that "decriminalizing abortion can ... inadvertently undermine the value of unborn life..." and said, "Women facing unwanted pregnancies are confronted with the hardest of choices. Ultimately, they require compassion and care in order to support them fully in the heart-wrenching decision they must take." She called for "improvements to abortion care," noting the "inadequacies of the 'pills by post' assessments."
Undermining life
It isn't that legalized abortion might inadvertently undermine the value of unborn life as Mullally claims; the issue is that abortion at its core always undermines the value of human life. Creating a law that says an entire group of innocent, vulnerable human beings can legally be targeted for death completely rejects their value and denies their humanity.
In a 2012 blog post, Mullally wrote about Rick Santorum, at the time a former senator who was running for the US presidency. She wrote that Santorum's daughter, Bella, "has a genetic disorder which means that she will die early," and that an article she read regarding Santorum noted "that nearly 90% of all such children in the US would have been aborted..."
Bella has Trisomy 18, a condition which pro-abortion individuals tend to use to justify legalized abortion, specifically in the second and third trimesters. Families of children with the condition were outraged when a Texas woman, Kate Cox, made headlines and received support from the Biden administration over her fight to have a D&E (dismemberment) abortion to end the life of her daughter Chloe following a Trisomy 18 diagnosis. Cox was hailed as a hero for dismembering Chloe specifically because of her diagnosis.
Bella Santorum was not quite four years old at the time Mullally penned the blog post. She is now 17 years old, but Mullally believes that strictly because of Bella's diagnosis, her life was expendable and the choice to have killed her would have been a valid one.
“In a 2012 blog post, Mullally wrote about Rick Santorum...”
As a fan of the Latin language, Rick’s last name always makes me smile. It’s not often that you see a genitive plural ending survive in someone’s surname in the 21st century.
Is she Christian? Is she a pagan? Does she cast spells? What religion is she?
So many questions.
Is she even a she? Is she even human?
He can certainly save the country.
It civilized and converted the world to Christianity and we in the US are the most fortunate beneficiaries of their culture and life work as a people.
We and King William (with help from Farage) need to prepare.
Can't have the Head of the C of E being a proponent of Moloch. Can't be.
40% of people leaving Mainline Protestant Churches say they can no longer stomach the Progressive Liberals in the Church Power Structure.
The leaders of the Church are literally driving people away from Jesus.
"Will no one rid us of this turbulent priest?"
You can not lead a church and then sanction the deaths of innocent children. The position is not compatible with such a stance. Upon the announcement of Sarah Mullally as archbishop... Everybody in the UK, and likely every Church of England parishioner, said in unison... WTF!!!
Quite frankly, who cares anymore?
If you look at Church attendance in the Church of England since 2010, attendance in the UK has significantly declined since 2010, with a 15-year fall of over a third in adult attendance and a sharp drop in usual Sunday attendance from around 799,000 in 2010 to 549,000 in 2022.
Baptisms have fallen from 266,000 in 1980 to 140,000 in 2011 and below 50K in 2024.
This is not funny, and even to us Catholics is sad and depressing as this is not only dragging down the CoE but dragging down ALL of Christianity.
I see no recovery from this.
At the same time, Morgana - we shouldn’t be so Anglo-centric. The state of Christianity in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and northern Germany (Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist) is equally despairing. The Churches there, ancient ones - dating to the 11th century or otherwise are repurposed into cafes etc. - Ghent has lost its soul completely and replaced it with emptiness. Even the mosques in Ghent were empty and the place feels so hollow it is palpable.
“If you look at Church attendance in the Church of England since 2010, attendance in the UK has significantly declined since 2010, with a 15-year fall of over a third in adult attendance and a sharp drop in usual Sunday attendance from around 799,000 in 2010 to 549,000 in 2022.”
So what does this denomination do? They bring in this She Creature and kill the whole thing off? Not one of them were thinking “let’s put some conservative male on the seat and save this sinking ship”?
I pray after this train wreck they will learn but I won’t hold my breath.
She should marry the fake pope.
The Catholic church has just made a temple to a moon god in the Vatican, I do not see how that is any better.
The time is for us to be Christian first, denominations second, seek a Spirit filled local Church and practice Acts 17:11
Abortion is a sacrament of her religion.
It would be a mistake to write her off before she’s started. I’ve seen her in action at close quarters. Very impressive. She was an oustanding suffragan bishop here in Devon before promotion to the London diocese.
There should be no doubt as to why England has been conquered by Islam.
He appointment as head of the faith literally violates Scripture.
God’s word is to be followed or why bother at all with any of it?
Her
I’ve never understood how you can hold two opposite opinions ... one, that children are a gift from God AND that you have the right to kill them in the womb.
I’m betting that she doesn’t actually believe in God.
Is she a tranny or a lesbo?
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