Easter Christendom: Raniela Cantalamessa, Rowan Williams, Chris Grayling, Cordoba church & the Westminster 2010 Declaration ‘declaration of conscience on values’
There was an awful lot of media activity during this Easter weekend relating to Christianity, and not much of it positive.
I resisted the temptation to post any of it, as I just wanted this weekend to be about Jesus.
Coincidentally this blog was one year old today.
We had the Vatican gaff when preacher Raniela Cantalamessa – the only person allowed to preach to the Pope – compared criticism of the Church over child abuse, to anti-Semitism, for which he later apologised.
We had Rowan Williams criticising the Irish Roman Catholic Church, (removing his blessing), and then apologising.
We then had the shadow home secretary Chris Grayling, come under fire, for backing the right of bed and breakfast owners to bar gay couples, relating to this case. I think the best observation I came across was this:
Would Jesus withhold hospitality from those considered sinners?
We also had the incident when Muslims were arrested trying to pray in the ancient Spanish Cordoba church, with a salient observation here.
To top off the Easter festivities, we had the Westminster 2010 Declaration, ‘declaration of conscience on values‘, which purports to set out a broad range of political policies that unite British churches, which was fisked here.
Anyhow, this is all a fairly accurate synopsis of the Easter coverage of Christendom, as viewed – by me – on BBC News24 earlier.
Oh yes, and we also had Nick Griffin of the BNP wishing us all a Happy Easter, which was duly commented on here.
How sad.
Tags: Christian Life, Christianity, Church Life, Media
April 4th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Happy Easter to you and your readers, Stuart. And thank you for following my blog. I wonder which fascist nutcase our mutual friend Mr Standing has his sights on next?
MSP