Monday 15 October 2012

Re making saints

Vive l'empereur, people tend to say nowadays, but if we are and independent branch and a via media, on our own times, with deeper roots in history than just in the reformation, that is with deep roots in the creative tensions between Edward Confessor and Bp Godwin, between Stephen and Lanfranc, and Henry II and Becket, and Henry and Wolsey, then why not establish a few institutes that put us on a par with the Overseas brigades of the Swiss guard? A commission for ritual that beefs up the sacrificial dimension, and a commission for beatifying saints, and so on?

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