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Jesuitical 10: Campion Award to the Archbishop of Canterbury

Hattip to Midwest Conservative Journal The latest in my on-going series on the follies of some modern Jesuits.  Proving yet again that they have the charism of being impervious to irony, the editorial board of America magazine announced that they were awarding the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, the Campion Award.  Considering the fact that Saint Edmund Campion, SJ, was martyred for his efforts to give spiritual succor to Catholics unwilling to desert the Faith for the Church of England, one might think that even the denizens of the editorial board of America might regard this as a trifle odd.  However, it actually makes sense when you think about it.  First, it allows them to take a backhanded slap at the Anglican initiative of the Pope, and, second, what the Church of England has morphed into, a left wing pressure group with prayers, is frankly what America has been championing for years in the Catholic Church.  Their hopes have been crushed, but they can by this award salute Rowan Williams, and give another gesture to the Pope.

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Gabriel Austin
Gabriel Austin
Saturday, January 16, AD 2010 11:10am

Why do Catholic sites and journals refer to Rowan Williams as the “archbishop of Canterbury”? He is not even a priest, much less a bishop.

Michael
Michael
Saturday, January 16, AD 2010 1:24pm

In all honesty, Donald, I’ve stopped believing that the Jesuits (Sure to soon change their name to the Gaiaits) are even Catholic. I don’t count them as a Catholic order, and as soon as I see S.J. (soon to be S.G) after an author’s name, I put the book away.

It’s too bad, really. The Jesuits used to be a powerful, orthodox order; and they had the most badass habits ever (believe it or not, Neo’s costume in the Matrix is modeled after Jesuit garb).

Oh well, there’s always the Dominican’s, right?

Pinky
Pinky
Saturday, January 16, AD 2010 3:10pm

Actually, if you can find good Jesuits, they’re unbeatable. But there never seem to be more than one or two in the same place. I bet there aren’t many in the offices of America.

What’s the award for, anyway? “A noted Christian person of letters”? Williams is a fool.

Gabriel Austin
Gabriel Austin
Sunday, January 17, AD 2010 3:53pm

Donald R. McClarey writes Saturday, January 16, 2010 A.D.
“Any organization Gabriel can come up with their own titles. Besides, if the Vatican uses such titles, and it does, I do not see why we cannot”.

Indeed the Vatican, i.e. the Church, does use such titles. But the titles refer to something existing, something real, a power to ordain and to confirm, “the power to bind and to loose”.

So called bishops of Protestant rites merely go through the motions. The Church definitively decided that the Church of England ordinations and the like are non-existent. It is a fraud on their followers.

Tito Edwards
Sunday, January 17, AD 2010 3:57pm

Gabriel Austin,

Why do Catholic sites and journals refer to Rowan Williams as the “archbishop of Canterbury”? He is not even a priest, much less a bishop.

Excellent point.

Are we being disrespectful when we refer to him instead as Dr. Rowan Williams or simply Mr. Williams?

I will never call a woman priest “father”.

For example I call the leader of the Episcopal church in America High Priestess Katharine Jefferts Schori.

She doesn’t deserve even the designation of Bishopess.

Is that too far?

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