There’s no doubt about it: Damian Thompson is a serial bishop basher.Having not long finished with having a go at Arthur Roche, he’s now having a bash at Crispian Hollis (left).
For some reason Bishop Crispian has cancelled a Polish lanaguage Mass in Portsmouth Diocese. So now Thompson and his Latinistas are jumping up and down demanding a Mass in the vernacular for this particular group. Confused? You will be – especially as one of the bloggers suggests the Poles should have an Extraordinary Form Mass in…er…Latin. Think I lost the plot at this point.
It will be interesting to discover the real reasons behind Bishop Crispian’s actions. In the mean time Thompson is joined by his usual coterie of bishop bashers, all complaining about the “magic circle” of bishops.
I suppose that makes it a Circle Bishop Bash.
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Damian Thompson's problem is that he thinks he ought to be running the Church in this country, and probably elsewhere too. One can only thank the Lord that he and his very small coterie of admirers do not have any real influence, and do not realise that their angry and indeed vitriolic behaviour serves only to alienate them and their cause, difficult though it can sometimes be to determine exacty what they stand for.
One of this group, a certain James McPake who (it appears) works on an oil rig in the middle of the North Sea (thus making him uniquely qualified to comment on matters Catholic) and who resides in a northwestern diocese (beginning with L and ending with r, it seems), became so incensed a little while back that he e-mailed a group of people including many of the bishops, claming that +Arthur Roche of Leeds was a --- well, he used the four-letter c-word. And this was because of the bishop's redeployment of a traditionalist priest who (so it appears) was not giving all his flock the pastoral care they deserved.....
McPake's e-mails are only semi-literate - or perhaps he is just so angry that he can't write coherently. The same is often true of John Kearney of Basingstoke. When he gets steamed up, spelling and common sense go straight out of the window. If you want some facts about the Polish situation in Portsmouth diocese, there's some material on Kearney's blog, Catholic Rights, where Yours Truly has commented in a couple of threads.
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