SHOULD RESIGN
BISHOP BARNES CHALLENGED. “CHRISTIAN FAITH DEGRADED.” London, October 18. Challenging the Bishop of Birmingham (Dr. Barnes) to resign, Father Woodlock, the celebrated Jesuit preacher of Farm Street Church, declared in the coursetof a sermon that though a Cabinet Minister resigned when he disagreed with his colleagues on the fundamental principles of Government, the Bishop retained his post and degraded the Christian faith in his sermons. A plain man he said, was bewildered and scandalized by such behaviour. Dr. Barnes should desist from offensive criticism of his fellow-Christians until he explained how he justified . the equivocation involved in reciting Christian creeds while making no secret of his disbelief in them. “No casuistry in Jesuit books on moral theology can be quoted,” he declared, “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.”
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Southland Times, Issue 21853, 2 November 1932, Page 8
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152SHOULD RESIGN Southland Times, Issue 21853, 2 November 1932, Page 8
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