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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
The new female Archbishop of Canterbury is, as many have mentioned, “the pure distilled essence of everything wrong with the Church of England.”
Her election came as no surprise in a country falling apart at the seams.
What we have here is a clown show that could have been produced by Keir Starmer’s Labour Party: a woman with thick air-blown ginger hair and square-frame Superman glasses. In photographs she appears wearing an immense miter larger than the one Pope Leo wears. In other hot takes she appears in bejeweled miters and rich vestments common in Russian Orthodoxy.
Even from a simple visual perspective, the traditional archbishop trappings don’t work here: her hair puffs up around the edges of her miters like a Harpo Marx wig.
Yet the issues here go deeper than hair and sex, though her sex, according to sacred apostolic tradition, would disqualify her from priestly ordination not to mention an office once held by St. Thomas Beckett.
As the Eastern Orthodox say, “Lord have mercy!”
The new archbishop, who is also a member of the House of Lords, is pro-abortion, pro-LGBT, pro-migrant, pro-Green, pro-euthanasia and pro-Palestine. She and her husband, Eamonn, have two children; this is practically the only conventional thing about her.
The Church of England (C of E) calls her the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, but that’s a lie. Dame Sarah Mullally is really the 34th Protestant holder of the office.
The last legitimate Archbishop of Canterbury was the 72nd holder of the Roman Catholic office instituted in 597, Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500-1558), an English aristocrat who ran afoul of King Henry XIII when the latter declared himself the Supreme Head of the English Church, a Church he invented.
Cardinal Pole called Henry XIII’s declaration heretical and dangerous, and refused to accept the king’s offer to make him the first C of E Archbishop of York. Enraged by the rejection, the king arrested members of Pole’s family, imprisoning the prelate’s mother, Margaret, before finally executing her and other Pole relatives in 1541.
After Henry’s death during the reign of Mary I, Catholicism in England enjoyed a temporary resurgence. Cardinal Pole was made Archbishop of Canterbury but his tenure was fraught with difficulties given the tension between the new Church and the one founded by that other King in the first century.
After Mary’s death-Pole died a mere twelve hours after the queen in 1558-the fantasy that Catholicism stood a chance of reclaiming England was put to rest.
During that period, the upstart Church not only stole the Catholic Church’s property, it eviscerated its monasteries, tortured and killed its priests from 1535 (namely Carthusian monks) to1681, repudiated its theology and practice, and then appropriated its offices and titles to imply a wholly fabricated continuity.
Since then it has been a down hill slide for the C of E.
In 1930, the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops approved the use of contraceptives in Britain. The following year, the Episcopal Church in the United States followed suit.
The year 1994 saw the C of E ordain female and openly gay priests. In 2002, the Church repealed its long term ban on divorced people remarrying until after a spouse’s death. Other reforms followed in 2014 when the consecration of women bishops was approved. In 2022, the Archbishop’s Council of the C of E approved a blessing ceremony for same sex couples.
The crowning glory of these reforms was the appointment of Sarah Mullally, a reputed hater of orthodox Christianity and someone primarily known as a manager and administrator with little interest in preaching the Gospel. Preaching the Gospel in the C of E was traded a long time ago for preaching that other gospel, the gospel of feminism, abortion, transgender and migrant rights….the gospel of Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.
The one silver lining in Mullally’s election is that the vast majority of the Anglican Communion still believes that Scripture requires a male-only episcopacy.
A statement from the majority Global South Fellowship of Anglicans (GSFA) was startlingly clear:
“We are deeply saddened that the person still perceived by many to be the spiritual leader of now some 100 million Anglicans worldwide has played a leading role in the Church of England’s departure from Anglican tradition and the clear teaching of Scripture in matters of marriage and sexuality.”
Another global group of conservative Anglicans, GAFCON, criticized Bishop Sarah’s election as proof that the English branch of the Church had “relinquished its authority to lead” because she has “repeatedly promoted unbiblical and revisionist teachings regarding marriage and sexuality.”
The C of E, with its soft-hearted and naive views of Islam-and in a country filled with Muslim migrants on the verge of civil war- and a king (King Charles) who as Supreme Head of the Church was careful to remove himself from Christianity when he said during his coronation ceremony that he was the Defender of all Faiths rather than the Christian Faith, has proven to be an empty Church without a message.
With the election of Mullally, the C of E has finally “progressed” into the orbit of total irrelevance.
It has become a tinted mirror of the secular culture; in American terminology, the C of E is the Democrat Party in pretty vestments.
A psycho-woke sequel to the Canterbury Tales…
Sounds like The Protestant Reformation needs to turn its fury on The Church of England and met out the same punishment on this satanic organisation that it earlier delt the Catholic Church.
The Lutheran reformation of 1517 was thoroughly “catholic” and was attempting to reform and eliminate the abuses of the “Roman” church.
It would be interesting to ask her how a person can be reconciled with God. I am betting that someone like Franklin Graham could give a more concise and truthful Gospel presentation.
Reminds me of this conversation: Q: “Reverend Weaknee, do you believe in God?” A: “Well, in a way…”
She’s a convert, so must at some point have believed that there are clear propositional differences between Christianity and humanism. Unfortunately, there is a section of the Church of England that sees new Christians, and those who identify as evangelicals, as material for theological liberalisation, and it is sounding as if she may have fallen into their hands before, during or after theological training.
They are using G-d as a means to achieve them becoming self declared secular gods of their own creation.
If following the laws of G-d is removed, she is no longer a representation of Christianity anymore than the new pope is to Catholicism.
Both are rapidly devolving into the religions of men-women directly mocking G-d Almighty.
A read through the Christian Bible should suffice as the pre-eminent source of their fundamental violations.
Though more human depravity is included in the overt tenants of Islam, even its murderous, violent misogyny and rampant sexual rape and violations of women and very young girls and boys has limits.
Those in profession of the LGTBQ+ identity and lifestyle still find an unwelcoming environment.
Better for England and Rome to nix Christianity and acknowledge their adherence to their unabashed following of self as gods. At least it would be honest and their now-worn vestments should be removed revealing they are just men and women who are hiding behind these religious garments while mocking G-d.
Doing so comes at a cost. We are daily watching the fall of humanity into regionally spreading, subhuman barbarity. We are also becoming the victims of these grotesque forms of violence without any safety being provided by these respective governments.
It is yet again history repeating itself and at the present falling on deaf ears.
The archbishop is nothing more than a highly placed civil servant. She has nothing to do with God, faith or religion. She runs a bureaucracy that used to do a good job of educating children but now cannot even be trusted to do that well.
What can one expect from a nation in freefall? More of this same foolishness and deflection of reality.
Satan’s grip grows stronger and tighter.
Pray for ‘it’s’ two children. But, this is what ‘religion’ gets you. Google states that there are some 4,300 ‘religions’ in the world, all teaching a different way to paradise. How many can be true ??? Answer…NONE. Truth be told, Jesus did not leave Heaven, come to earth to suffer and die for the salvation of mankind (those who ‘choose’ to believe that He really is God, repent of their sins and accept His free gift of salvation and follow Him); He came to establish a ‘personal’ relationship, one on one, with His creation, like He did with the Apostles.
He is waiting for you to call Him now. Look around the world. He is coming back any day now and it will soon be too late to choose.
Rev. Roy……………<
Sure, that’s why He said, “Thou art Peter and on this rock I BUILD MY CHURCH..” I take it that you think the old Testament is all there is to the Bible.
2 different words fo rock in the Greek, and 2 different “rocks” as well; Yeshua being the 1 on which the CHURCH was built; eter,a mere human, was broken and flawed, therefore not good foundation material, which Yhvh God knew well.
One buttfugly a$$ woman, and we sure it is a woman?
And hubby Eammon got with that? They spawned two rug rats? Now that is desperation.
“What we have here is a clown show that could have been produced by Keir Starmer’s Labour Party: a woman with thick air-blown ginger hair and square-frame Superman glasses. In photographs she appears wearing an immense miter larger than the one Pope Leo wears. In other hot takes she appears in bejeweled miters and rich vestments common in Russian Orthodoxy.”
Is there anything about this thing that is remotely normal?
A total fraud! A wolf in shepherd’s clothing…..
The end of the Church of England !
A rudderless ship headed to complete disaster.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! none of my business!
There is exactly one qualification for Christian ministry, that we should abide in Christ, which He said was the sole condition of fruitfulness. Paul’s advice to Timothy on selecting elders summarises the evidences that a given person has learnt to abide in Christ. Any other lack can be remedied – the God who calls also equips – but nothing can make up for absence of that live connection. The Adversary’s concealment of this truth demonstrates its importance- I have never heard a sermon on this topic, in 43 years since my conversion, and have seen only one modern article (which mistook the means for the end, assuming that our gathering together is abiding, rather than encouraging and helping us to abide). We assume the posture of abiding in two ways, both mentioned by Jesus at the Last Supper – abiding in His love, which we do by looking up often and lovingly (perhaps the RC “Practice of the Presence of God”?), and implicit obedience to His commandments.
My own belief is that Paul’s strictures against women teaching or leading were largely due to differential access to literacy amongst Gentiles (it is clear from, e.g., Mary’s Song, that devout Jewish women were well-versed in Scripture) – those who cannot read the Scriptures may fall victim to charlatans. Paul’s 1 Corinthians 14:35 advice that women should save their questions for their husbands, could be universally applicable only if the husbands could read but the wives could not – also making it impossibly time-consuming to deal with queries in a church context.
The quotations from GAFCON and GSFA seem to me to be about Dame Sarah Mulally’s stance on LGBT “marriage” rather than her gender. That isn’t to say that there aren’t many conservative Christians in both groups who object to having a female Archbishop, only that these quotations can’t be adduced to say that.
We English have not had a King Henry XIII – we did have a Henry VIII. And on a technical note, Archbishop Matthew Parker, King Henry’s daughter Elizabeth I’s first Protestant archbishop, was consecrated by Welsh bishops whose Apostolic succession was from St Thomas, not from the Roman See.
I think you have grossly misinterpreted the writings of the apostle Paul. In 1 Timothy 3:12-14 he wrote the following: “But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. 13 For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. 14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression”.
The Bible is clear about women and preaching. They should not do it, in fact they must not preach.
Therefore, this woman is not a preacher, a vicar, a minister, whatever title might be appropriate. She should be in the seats in front of the pulpit, not standing behind it and pretending she has God’s blessing for whatever heresies she is spouting on about.
So, criticising her view, her hair or anything else about her is superfluous to the real cause for concern, namely that the Church of England think it is acceptable to have women preachers.
thanks to the author for taking his time on this one.
Dear Mr. Nickels: You don’t memtion.the people who were burmed at the stake during the reign of Mary Tudor. Nor do you mention that, as I believe Chesterton said, she was willing to do wrong for her church, but not do right. She had people burned at the stake, but she never gave the monastic orders bavk all that land her father stole
LGNT is not a monolith
There are plenty of gays and lesbians wno don’t want men in woman”s sports or men in womam”s locker rooms or men in woman’s prisons or men grabbimg slots, set aside for women, on corporate boards.
God forbid if they ever s came up with a Female Pope this Pope is already a Imposter like t he rest of them
What an ugly piece of Canterbury tail ~
That was a tacky thing to say
I was baptized and confirmed as an Episcopalian but no more! To paraphrase the old political saw, “I am not leaving the Church. The Church left me.”