CHALLENGE TO RESIGN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 17, 31 October 1932, Page 5

CHALLENGE TO RESIGN

BISHOP OF BIRMINGHAM. , JESUIT PREACHER’S CHARGES LONDON, October 16. Challenging the Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. E. W. Barnes, to resign, Father Wood-lock, the celebrated Jesuit preacher of Farmstreet Church,., declared in the course of a sermon to-day that, though a Cabinet Minister resign- < ned when he disagreed with his colleagues on the fundamental principles of government, the bishop retained his post and degraded the Christian faith in liis sermons. A plain man, he said, was bewildered and scandalised by such behaviour. ])r. Barnes should desist from offensive criticism of liis fellow-Christi'ans until he explained how lie justified the equivocation involved in reciting Christian creeds, while making no secret of liis disbelief in them. j “No casuistry in Jesuit hooks -on moral tlieologv can he ; quoted,” declared Father Woodlock, “to justify a man’s declaration before God that he believes in the virgin birth and the resurrection of Christ, when openly in the pulpit he denies those doctrines.”