A friend told me the other day of a conversation with a leading member of the congregation of an Anglo-Catholic parish that currently is looking for a new incumbent. When my friend said they assumed the parish was looking for someone in that tradition they got the answer "Oh we wouldn't object to a woman, especially if she was young and had children as that could be good for the village school."
So much for sustaining the Anglo_Catholic witness of the parish. Was it for this that Fr Tooth and others went to prison?
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Did The Revd.Sidney Faithorn Green go to Lancaster gaol for 20 months so that in the 20th century in the Anglican diocese of Manchester not only his church , but also almost all those with any pretensions to catholicism could be closed. St Gabriel, Hulme, St Benedict, Ardwick, and Our Lady of Mercy and St Thomas of Canterbury , Gorton are all now no longer in use.
Incredible! Sacrifice the Faith to enlarge school enrollment?
Withering of Anglo-Catholicism also means the wither of much affected eccentricity, one of its contributions to mankind.
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