Gulag UK: “It’s All in the Database.”

Those who think I’m over the top when I talk about Gulag UK should take a look at this ad currently being run by the BBC.



Big Brother Corporation?

(Numerous hat tips, including to Billy Ockham.)

BREAKING: Google Under Attack?

Everything Google, including Blogspot and You Tube, is running very slowly this morning. The rest of the net seems to be just fine. I therefore suspect Google is under some kind of attack.

Manchester Report on Women Bishops in the CofE

The Manchester Report is out. And it appears that reason has prevailed, that “a church within a church” in the form of extrageographical dioceses will be provided for those who cannot recognize the ordination of women as sacramentally valid.

Of course, this provision begs the question: if a form of “boundary crossing” is o.k. for the Church of England, then why isn’t it o.k. for the Anglican Communion?

Ruth Gledhill has posted a good report. Interesting commentary may be found there as well as here and here. I especially appreciate this comment: “Ladies - just take a good, long look at male bishops. 
Now, honestly, do you still want to be bishops too?
 Come on, you're much too intelligent for that.”

Forward in Faith is tentatively pleased with the report:

We are pleased to note that the report appears to have addressed most, if not all, of the issues which we raised with the Group and that it seems, among the several possible ways forward described, to include proposals which those unable to receive the ordination of women as bishops could in good conscience embrace.

But scorched-earth liberals such as Christina Rees of Women and the Church are not pleased. They want women bishops now and “with no legal arrangements for those who remain opposed to having women as bishops and priests.” Submit or leave is their policy towards traditionalists. How inclusive.

Fortunately – and unlike the Episcopal Church – such do not yet run the show in the Church of England.

Ubuntu Indaba!

That’s a cool sounding greeting, isn’t it? Or maybe it’s a creative expletive.

Of course, I have no idea what it really means. But I want to be trendy and multicultural like these crackers ++Rowan Williams and The Episcopal Church.

++Rowan Misses the Point.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has gone YouTube with his agenda for Lambeth.

He makes it clear that “we don't want at the Lambeth Conference to be creating a lot of new rules” like that nasty Lambeth 1998 Resolution 1.10. He instead wants lots of fellowship, prayer and Bible studies and the like.

And that completely misses the point.

Many Anglicans cannot and – if one gives scriptures about dealing with false teachers any weight – really should not be in full fellowship with the apostates and heretics among the bishops of the Anglican Communion. So how can Lambeth be a big kum-ba-ya?

Oh, that’s right – if one leads in such a manner that those most intent on following scripture on the issue of false teachers and fellowship won’t come.

Of course, that’s not ++Rowan’s intent. But it sure as heck has been the result of his leadership.

Pope Tells It Like It Is to American Mainliners

This hasn’t gotten a lot of publicity. But at the meeting that TEC Presiding “Bishop” Schori conveniently missed, Pope Benedict had some strong words that just have to have been aimed at the apostates mainline denomination leaders in the audience:

Fundamental Christian beliefs and practices are sometimes changed within communities by so-called "prophetic actions" that are based on a hermeneutic not always consonant with the datum of Scripture and Tradition. Communities consequently give up the attempt to act as a unified body, choosing instead to function according to the idea of "local options". Somewhere in this process the need for diachronic koinonia - communion with the Church in every age - is lost, just at the time when the world is losing its bearings and needs a persuasive common witness to the saving power of the Gospel (cf. Rom 1:18-23).

Wow. That is not only absolutely right; it’s about as “in your face” as you’ll ever see a modern pope get. Pope John Paul II’s trip to Nicaragua in 1983, in which he began lecturing Sandinista priests as soon as he got off the plane, is the only instance I can think of that exceeds what Benedict just did.

I like this pope.

Another Liberal Idiot Hiltz vs. Venables

Once again a liberal Primate is picking a fight with the Primate of the Southern Cone, Gregory Venables. This time it’s the Most Reverend Fred Hiltz of the Anglican Church of Canada. He’s written ++Venables objecting to his visit to churches who have left the ACC and joined the Province of the Southern Cone. And he’s released the letter publicly, of course.

He attacks ++Venables for being divisive, and in so doing breathtakingly overlooks that the ACC “bishop” of New Westminster has been a focus of division and has driven out the churches ++Venables is taking in and will visit.

Again, this is very similar to the letter from the TEC toadies bishops of Brazil. These liberals are like abusive parents that drive children out of the house then complain that a good family takes them in.

Ah, but --Hiltz says there’s no spiritual abuse in the Anglican Church of Canada. Nope, none at all. (Warning: I advise not drinking your coffee in front of your computer while reading the following.)

The Bishops believe that we have made adequate and appropriate provision for the pastoral care and Episcopal support of all members of the Anglican Church of Canada, including those who find themselves in conscientious disagreement with the view of their Bishop and Synod over matters of human sexuality.

Yes, I did have a good laugh this morning when I read that one.

Anyway, no formal reply from ++Gregory is out yet. But he has pointed out the obvious, that these Canadian churches aren’t part of the Anglican Church of Canada anymore. And that therefore he won’t call off the trip.

Nor should he.