George also underlined the interreligious aspect of the conference, with people of faith coming together “across the historic line of religious divisions to bear witness to the common belief that marriage is the union of man and woman open to life.” It was a running joke during the gathering that the non-Catholic speakers were the most powerful ones, with speeches from former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, Lord Jonathan Sacks, and the Rev. Richard Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church. Both received standing ovations. Anthony Fisher, the newly appointed bishop of Sydney, Australia, who attended the gathering and described it as the best Vatican-organized conference he has attended in the past 15 years, saw truth in the joke. The Jews and the Evangelicals were the best, they spoke very inspiringly, but that’s good for us, it’s like an injection of hope,” he said. “I’d really like for those Jews and Evangelicals to be at the next synod [on the family, scheduled for October 2015],” Fisher said. How disgusting. A true Catholic bishop, St John Fisher, must be rolling around in his grave. Of course not literally because he is in Heaven for witnessing to the true Catholic Faith, not the false Vatican II religion that prides itself on false ecumenism.
It is particularly mistaken to be invoking the great St. John Fisher in this matter. As a scholar he was open to the wisdom of humanists like Erasmus and constructively conversant with some of the men who formed the early beginnings of the Reformation. He was murdered for defending the indissolubility of marriage (King Henry VIII and Queen Catherine) and for rejecting the odious Act of Supremacy.
If Robbie George, Glendon and Chaput want to ally with humanists and Protestants also in defense of marriage, I think Fisher (and More and, what the heck, Erasmus) are beaming down their approval from around the Heavenly Throne.