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Rowan Williams calls Diarmuid to say sorry
Monday, 5 April 2010
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams expressed his “deep sorrow and regret” after saying the Catholic Church in Ireland had lost “all credibility”.
In Dublin's Pro-Cathedral, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said Archbishop Williams had spoken with him by phone explaining his “sadness” regarding some “unfortunate words” in his interview.
Church of Ireland Primate, Archbishop Alan Harper, called Archbishop Williams’ comments “unhelpful”.
Speaking in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, he said: “The lay people of the Roman Catholic Church do not deserve to be criticised for the failings of some of their bishops and priests.”
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What seems to escape Mr Williams, is that his ecclesial communities never even had any credibility to begin with, and hence he has neither the authority nor the right to vomit out his self-imposed, self-aggrandizing and arrogantly assumed credibility. Ever exponentially dividing into infinite schisms and multiplicity, such schismatics can only stand in jealous awe that only the Roman Catholic Church remains one, and has stood through all manner of troubles, and shall continue to do so until the end of time, owing to the fact that the Church alone is divinely sanctioned, having been called into being by Jesus Christ. Is some estimates, there exist some 60 000 denominations within Protestantism. The logical conclusion and corollary to Williams' and all other Protestant schismatic sects, is that more and more division will continue to occur - it cannot stop; indeed, why would it? - until each individual heretic has his or her own church of one, wherein he or she will finally be free to re
Posted by JP2 | 06.04.10, 01:04 GMT