The sad part is a comment from "Fr Martin":
"Advice for Seminarians"!!!I agree with Fr Ray Blake and Paulinus that this is nothing more than cyber-bullying. Seminarians are rightly careful about what they post on the internet and try to remain balanced and moderate in what they say. This post is a perfectly acceptable communication of a priest's preaching, and not in the least "patronising".
Until you are ordained then please do not assume to offer advice to priests.
The advice I will offer you is if you wish to be ordained then I suggest that you refrain from such patronising comments. You are lucky that I do not know which Seminary that you attend, as if I did I would be expressing my concerns to your Rector.
Fr Martin, unwisely, attempted to bully Damien Thompson last week - cf. The true voice of liberalism.
5 comments:
Personally, I have my doubts as if he is really a priest or not. All the blogger priests I see on the internet, at least in these circles are readily identifiable through external sources. This guy isn't and has a fairly recent profile which is sparse on information. Perhaps he's afraid *we'd* sic his bishop on him, just on general principle of him acting like a complete jerk.
Maybe he's just testing - to see who bites back.
What an abysmal comment from Fr Martin!
The one thing the English Catholic Church most certainly needs is a bit of critical self examination and, with God's grace, these seminarians will help to provide it.
And how wonderful to think of parishioners throwing their unorthodox priests out of the church! If only....
Well, Gem, he did say "I am a priest in good standing". If he is not a priest then he is clearly a liar. Somehow I think that he was telling the truth when he wrote that. On the other hand......!
JARay
This all just confirms one of my maxims of life - never argue with a liberal!
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