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Bishop of Wrexham

It was recorded in the Catholic Herald of the 4 April 2003, that when the Latin Mass Society complained that he only permitted one traditional Mass per week in his diocese, this grinning smug Modernist responded to the effect that he was surprised that it was that much!

He then continued "One of the problems is that other things get clustered around it - a certain reluctance in some people to accept Vatican II.  It can be used as a way of looking at the past which isn't entirely healthy."  One can only assume that the busy bishop has not had time to get round to actually reading the documents of Vatican II, which of course mandated that the liturgy of the Latin Church should remain Latin!  Sacrosanctum Concilium, Vatican ll’s decree on the Sacred Liturgy, states: 36 (1) The use of the Latin language, with due respect to particular law, is to be preserved in the Latin rites.  The comment about looking at the past in a way "which is not entirely healthy" presumably means that there are still some reactionaries who do not share his lordship's view that the last 2000 years has been one long unmitigated cock-up, from which we were only rescued by the blinding insights of our post-Conciliar shepherds.

He then concluded, "Where it not for Vatican II, church attendance would be even less."  Some may be a little surprised to learn that Vatican II was supposed to merely stop church attendance from becoming "even less."  After all, we had been lead to believe, if my memory is serving me correctly, that it was intended to usher in a brave new glorious dawn of Catholicism!  When the English church has been reduced to a remnant, which will be in less than 20 years at the present rate of implosion of around 100,000 souls every three years, this irrepressible grinning Modernist will no doubt be cheerily assuring us that "Where it not for Vatican II, the Church would have vanished even faster."

One is entitled to wonder how his lordship arrived at his conclusion.  It is of course self-evident that in the Gnostic illuminated mindset of our newChurch pioneers, facts and rational arguments are not required.  After all, if you have your own private line to the Holy Spirit, who needs trivia like facts and sound arguments?  His lordship is rather like a bus driver, who having swerved and knocked down a couple of healthy young men and left them bleeding to death in the road, proffers in his defence, "Had I not taken the trouble to knock them down, they may have come to an even stickier end."  Which I suppose could be true..... if you think about it long enough.  Nevertheless, I do not believe that one could censure the young men in question if they did not find this line of argument entirely convincing.

Jubilee 2000 Congress Report

Concerned readers in Wales sent us copies of the Jubilee 2000 Congress Report from the Wrexham Diocese. The Congress, held on - 27th - 28th October 2000, spawned this official looking report with the Jubilee Logo on its cover, which includes such recommendations as: using "inclusive language", demanding "more sensitive language from Rome (immediately if not sooner)" and stopping use of the phrase "non-Catholic". More seriously, it also calls for an end to the "exclusion of other Christians from the Eucharist". Sadly, we have come to expect this sort of fare from those with a politically correct or dissenting agenda, but it was very disturbing to see that the introduction to the report had been written and signed by Bishop Edwin Regan of Wrexham Diocese. His introduction began "Three years ago, we asked ourselves a question: How could the Church develop in our Diocese of Wrexham to reflect the Gospel more effectively?" Not by implementing the above suggestions, obviously! The report is clearly unrepresentative of what ordinary faithful Catholics would expect and initial information received suggests that not a few in Wrexham are very unhappy about its recommendations.