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Author Topic: Bsp. Williamson: "Belief in N.O. Eucharistic Miracles Necessary for Holy Oils"  (Read 28083 times)

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Offline Emile

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The "parents" forget the standards demanded of their high calling, take their fights public, so then the children are drug into it, and voila, a dysfunctional shit-show, driving unnecessary division in traddie-land. Another fine job, Clergy. 

This is nonsense and it needs to stop.  The shepherds fight one another as the sheep wander off in search of pasture.   


The "parents" forget the standards demanded of their high calling, take their fights public, so then the children are drug into it, and voila, a dysfunctional shit-show, driving unnecessary division in traddie-land. Another fine job, Clergy.

Agreed, but let us not forget who the one was that took it public.

  +W needs a PR manager, because this is just messy.
One of the problems we have is that we've had too many PR managers putting things in nice pretty packages for us to accept.
Give me a straight forward, blunt talking person any day:  someone who says what he means and means what he says.  Only when I know the raw facts can I draw an informed conclusion.
+Williamson is from my generation when we spoke our minds and the truth as we knew it and let the chips fall where they may... then moved on.

If I were Bishop Williamson, I would have responded with an open letter that, "For the good of the faithful who depend upon you, I will grant your request for the Holy Oils, but this should not be construed as an endorsement by myself of your various theological positions."  I think that His Excellency should rise above the personal disagreements with Father Hewko for the sake of the faithful.

At the same time, Fathers Pfeiffer and Hewko should also have kept their disagreements with Bishop Williamson much more civil than they ended up being.  It's obvious that the primary animus driving their hostility was Bishop Williamson's refusal to consecrate Father Pfeiffer and to endorse his seminary, and so various matters that should have been respectful disagreements transformed into hostile attacks, and Father Hewko was largely dragged along by Father Pfeiffer's stronger will.
Yes, why air your dirty laundry in public?  FYI holiness is attractive, say no more.