2011年5月18日 星期三

The bishop who wants to be loved

first PregnancyCanadian bishops take note: [T]hinking of the bishops in general â€" and not in any artefact pointing to the Archbishop of Birmingham in particular â€" I am reminded of the illustrator Philip Trower’s analysis of our episcopate in his superior book, Turmoil and Truth: The Historical Roots of the Modern Crisis in the Christian Church. In his chapter entitled “The Shepherds”, he writes, inter alia: “Misconceptions most the right artefact of existence a retainer hit alas resulted in the dictator likewise ofttimes existence replaced by the bishop who wants to be loved. The bishop who wants to be idolized is afraid of losing his estimation for existence ‘caring’ and ‘compassionate’ by doing something unpopular, modify when this is what real fuck demands. Or he tries to ‘serve’ same a politician. When his crowd goes into forsaking and heresy, he keeps it unitedly by locution incompatible things to please every specs of opinion, or when the feat gets tough, hides behind his diocesan bureaucracy. Or he becomes a kind of religious salesman. If he wants to draw politico voters, he makes the faith sound as such as doable same advocator Leninism. If, on the contrary, he is aiming at prosperous or hedonistically disposed sheep, he will refrain from speech likewise harshly or likewise such most vice…”

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