Tim Stanley talks sense about the Tuam scandal and the media's agenda [here]
Ancient Briton muses on the possibilities of an acceptable Code of Practice in Wales [here]
A capitulation to the radical chic(as) of neo-feminist theology and its illiberal apologists will only serve to hasten the demise of an already weakened Church in Wales ..... the enemy is within the walls .... and how!
As for the Code of Practice, we will soon know ....
More on 'the smoke of Satan,' in Pope Paul VI's words: the confusion of the contemporary Church - from a Roman Catholic perspective [here]: Bishop Athanasius Schneider speaks of liberal collaboration with the 'new paganism.'
We know a certain amount about that over here ....
The dangers of an attitude of over familiarity with sacred things - ἀναστόμωσις on the degradation of 'over-handling' [here]. The Fathers of the Oxford Movement expressed a similar caution ....
"During my lifetime I have never been terrified. I'm just a vicious little Scotsman" - No, not Alex Salmond, nor Richard Holloway, but perhaps the ultimate denial of modern touchy-feelyness - from, of course, a D Day veteran: here
It's somewhat characteristic of the superficiality of modern Britain that the issue of Islamic extremists attempting to infiltrate state schools (or not, depending on one's view of the available evidence..) should be reported as a personal row between two 'big beasts' of the Coalition Cabinet - one despairs ..... [here]
Finally, and bizarrely, Adam lay y-bounden ... (apologies) - Christopher Howse at The Telegraph writes entertainingly [here] on the (to modern eyes) strange Victorian campaign to ban lavatories in new churches.....
Although the Ecclesiologists may have been on to something, as, in all kinds of ways, we Anglicans, regrettably, seem to be returning to pre-Tractarian attitudes - with a vengeance....
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