tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post6600818326184517179..comments2024-03-29T14:32:13.886+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Tablets all roundFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-59061444553422566322009-12-28T01:50:51.848+00:002009-12-28T01:50:51.848+00:00Unfortunately the stupid stigma once attaching to ...Unfortunately the stupid stigma once attaching to those who left the seminary before ordination more than backfired: how many unsuitable and even downright sinister types hung in and got ordained so as to avoid this shame, and ended up, well... look at the mess in Ireland...Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-1738714042744851932009-12-27T23:59:28.717+00:002009-12-27T23:59:28.717+00:00"St" got to it before me...
Yes Father,..."St" got to it before me...<br /><br />Yes Father, my recollection of the term 'spoiled priest' in the Ireland of my youth was of one who left the seminary prior to being ordained.<br /><br />I recall my mother pointing out an elderly gentleman in town who had never married and saying in hushed tones: "Of course, you know he was a spoiled priest."<br /><br />It was a GORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-6043107723328767662009-12-27T23:58:33.631+00:002009-12-27T23:58:33.631+00:00During my years in Cambridge he was a fellow of th...During my years in Cambridge he was a fellow of the once-Jesuit college, whose name I forget, and was a proponent of all things liberal; and I think he eventually held a professorship before his retirement. The late Dom Christopher Jenkins, when Catholic Chaplain at Cambridge, would on occasion animadvert on Lash's views in his homilies, and rather more vigorously privately.<br /><br />Lash&William Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16634494183165592707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-20093274370085498852009-12-27T23:22:41.708+00:002009-12-27T23:22:41.708+00:00Correction: a "spoiled priest" was not s...Correction: a "spoiled priest" was not someone who had left the prieshood (unthinkable in the good old days) but someone who had left the seminary before priestly ordination. Canon Sheehan has a short story about such a one.Galleryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05609738203677123881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-15512289290551509262009-12-27T22:51:11.014+00:002009-12-27T22:51:11.014+00:00I first heard of Nicholas Lash in duel in New Blac...I first heard of Nicholas Lash in duel in New Blackfriars with Michael Dummett. Dummett had attacked interpretations of the NT that denied the Virgin Birth, and Lash wrote an article in response (which I have not read) called "Orthodoxy: A Leaky sort of thing." He argues for the ordination of women, or at least continued discussion of it... And so on...Kiranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15869694933362233326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-6290479246985224202009-12-27T21:36:23.340+00:002009-12-27T21:36:23.340+00:00Here in Australia, laicized priests tend to become...Here in Australia, laicized priests tend to become ABC journalists, or (worse still) the sort of professional Catholic dissenters who never shut up.<br /><br />As for Ireland, apparently those who were rejected in the olden days, before this newfangled nonsense about quickly dispensing everything (e.g. thrown out of the seminary after subdiaconate) would become taxi drivers in Dublin; hence the Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-7751809612630708942009-12-27T20:49:23.011+00:002009-12-27T20:49:23.011+00:00Yep - he's a busted-priest alright. And there ...Yep - he's a busted-priest alright. And there are loads of them like him, hanging around the Tablet like bad smells - determined to frustrate any movement of the Holy Spirit not dressed in 1970's clothes. Thank God for Pope Benedict!frdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257615365352846997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-16906666279789389272009-12-27T20:26:41.903+00:002009-12-27T20:26:41.903+00:00"in the happier and more innocent days of the..."in the happier and more innocent days of the Irish Church"<br /><br />Father, I don't know when I shall stop laughing over this one!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-37462150423471487232009-12-27T15:54:40.815+00:002009-12-27T15:54:40.815+00:00Prof Lash's Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikiped...Prof Lash's Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_lash) describes him as "having been briefly ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood." The anonymous author the the Wikipedia entry is evidently unaware that "ordination to the Roman Catholic priesthood" is not a state which is patient of the adverb "briefly" (i.e. to be laicized is not to be Chris Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03220498656377282715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-84088671910004904832009-12-27T14:22:39.454+00:002009-12-27T14:22:39.454+00:00I too have been intrigued by the varied reactions ...I too have been intrigued by the varied reactions to the Apostolic Constitution. First, there are those Anglo-Catholic priests who for many years have embraced Roman Catholic liturgy, to the exclusion of anything Anglican. They desire unity with the Holy See. However, many of them are actively gay (with or without established partners). Their pro-Roman liturgical stance has alienated them Antient Scholarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04906394952208879170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-86050933896631320132009-12-27T13:20:50.549+00:002009-12-27T13:20:50.549+00:00I understand him to be laicized.I understand him to be laicized.Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00324636915206892169noreply@blogger.com