Losing The Plot?

Several sandwiches short of a picnic. Not the full shilling. A few bricks short of a load. Lights are on, but nobody's home...

Bishop Hollis has demonstrated a severe case of foot-in-mouth disease. This disease is characterised by the sufferer opening his mouth only to change whatever foot he had in there to begin with, and dropping enough bricks to build a cathedral...

Alzheimer's has also made an early appearance: his Lordship appears to have forgotten that, as shepherd of God's flock which has been entrusted to him, his role is to uphold Catholic doctrine... (unless that requirement was waived by the Second Vatican Council. Somehow I don't think so!)

A three-week course designed to introduce foreign priests to the British way of doing things in the Roman Catholic church has opened at Ushaw College outside Durham in Northumberland, England. It was the brainchild of Bishop Hollis. I posted on the rubbish which was supposed to be taught on this course before.

It gets better... the President of Ushaw College, the Rev. Terry Drainey, has been quoted as saying, "Some foreign priests working in Britain tend to be too dogmatic about the church’s moral rightness on just about everything. That’s not how we do things here. This course shows how we deal with a whole range of issues affecting Catholics, including the role of women, divorce, the lay ministry and homosexuality."

The whole point of having foreign priests is to re-evangelise the Church in England and Wales. The "British way of doing things" has resulted in falling Mass attendance and a dearth of vocations. This is the reason we need foreign priests. No doubt Bishop Hollis's views on the legalisation of prostitution are being taught on this course as well...

Twitch of the mantilla to Ttony of The Muniment Room, Fr. Tim Finigan and Fr. Ray Blake.