25 responses to “On Being Threatened”

  1. Edwin Barnes Avatar

    Poor Justin. If he gives no lead, he is attacked as weak;if he says what most of the Anglican Communion (and even more of the ecumenical world) believes, he is called bullying. Thank the Good Lord for Benedict XVI and the Ordinariates.

    1. Kelvin Avatar

      I don’t think that’s fair. No one is saying he shouldn’t say whatsoever he likes. The question is whether he should be in the business as ABC of symbolically removing someone from a particular role which is entirely in his gift as a sanction for a province making a decision.

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