"Eccles tells me you may be saved after all."
We have not yet contacted Bishop Campbell for a statement, but we believe that he intends to revive the Protect the Pope blog under another name. So far he has not yet installed a little widget that tells you how long it is since Enda Kenny should have been excommunicated (1 year, 7 months, 4 weeks, 2 days, 13 hours and a few minutes at the time of writing), but I am sure that it will be coming soon.
We are also looking forward to in-depth articles about the evils of QUEST, the Soho Masses Pastoral Council, Tony Flannery, Tina Beattie, Basil Loftus, old uncle Tim Radcliffe and all. Or maybe not, as most of these do not operate in his diocese (when Basil Loftus goes down to London from Ochmahairasee to collect his thirty pieces of silver from the Catholic Times, he always uses the East Coast Main Line, rather than the West, in order to to avoid trouble in Lancaster).
Cardinal Ouellet and friends excommunicate Enda Kenny as gently as possible.
Bishop Campbell's robust attack on ACTA has been vigorously supported by Cardinal Vincent Nichols. "I do not think that secret societies, with their passwords, funny handshakes and odd rituals, provide the best method for conducting dialogue of this sort," he explained. "I much prefer it when people come out in the open and write letters to the Catholic Herald, or else appear on BBC Radio 4 talking to Ed 'Stewpot' Stourton. That's the sort of dialogue the Pope has asked for, not the cloak-and-dagger tactics favoured by ACTA."
Ed "Stewpot" Stourton interviews a member of ACTA.
Anyway, following Bishop Campbell's initiative, we look forward to seeing other bishops follow suit. Will we see a "Protect the Pope (Arundel and Brighton Branch)"? Well, miracles do happen...
I always thought ACTA was a Mickey Mouse outfit.
ReplyDeleteYou're right and it comes in 4 sizes - Adult, Child, Toddler & Adolescent
Delete14 pics of the bishop, along with 3 of Jesus and 2 of Pope Francis. Is +Campbell trying to tell us something?
ReplyDeleteI do love your name for the residence of Baz Loftus (Ochmahairasee). It could have been Fromullellandalifax. Perhaps he uses the East Coast line, not so much because he wants to avoid trouble in Lancaster but because he running Fromullellandalifax. He told one former school associate that he wanted nothing to do with such as he, when he was invited to share a coffee after Mass.
ReplyDeleteIn the 3rd pic we see him about to shake hands on a deal with the red-headed recent convert Rebekah Brooks to run the new Protect the Pope blog. Wow! What revelations can we expect?
ReplyDeleteHe should be applauded for stepping in to save St Walburge's Church in Preston and putting it in the hands of ICKSP. And now he's given ACTA a good kicking. Credit where it is due.
ReplyDeleteWith Francis apparently teaching his godson to swear which he finds amusing, then perhaps it is we who need protection from the pope.
ReplyDeleteI'm with John Fannon on that. Give him credit where it's due.
ReplyDelete"has decided to do something noble". That's credit. Of course, PtP was on the case over a year ago.
DeleteAfter World War 2, when the McCarthy reds-under-the-bed kangaroo court (sorry, Senate Committee) was active, they wanted to go after people whose patriotism was undoubted, but who were suspected nevertheless of harbouring liberal (no, not the libs we have today) views; they therefore invented a category called Premature Anti-Fascist (PAF). This was composed of people who had seen the truth about Hitler and nazism back in the 1930s, but who had not been heeded when they spoke up about it.
DeleteI suspect that category, under a different name of course, is going to come in very useful in the future course of this papacy.
PS Note to all those straining at the leash to get hold of the wrong end of this stick: No, I am NOT suggesting Pope F is Hitler or a nazi.