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?
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.
ReplyDeleteIncredible! Sacrifice the Faith to enlarge school enrollment?
ReplyDeleteWithering of Anglo-Catholicism also means the wither of much affected eccentricity, one of its contributions to mankind.
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