The news is that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has virtually retracted his statement that the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland is losing all credibility following the surfacing of child-sex-abuse allegations. This while Benedict remains silent.
The papal reaction is predictable. Why would the head of such a corrupt, soulless and evil institution be ready to draw attention to its "frailties" (quote from a catholic emerging from an Easter service).
But what of Rowan? His first reaction was bold, appropriate and moral. Stand by that morality, Rowan.
Or have you been sucked so surely into the vortex of ecumenicism that you can no longer criticise the obvious immorality of others? Do you feel so under siege from atheism that any enemy of my enemy is my ally?
At a moment when the Anglican Church could have differentiated its morality and faith from the mob, it has lost its nerve.
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"Let him who is without sin cast the first stone," perhaps? The Anglican church needs to look carefully in its backyard before it gets on its moral high horse - just look at what happened here in Queensland!
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