CHURCH DISPUTE
A CHALLENGE TO DR BARNESLONDON, October 21. Challenging the Bishop of Birmingham 1 (Dr Barnes) to resign, Father .Woodlock, the celebrated Jesuit preacher of Farm 'Street Church, declared in tbl e course of a sermon that though a Cabinet Minister resigned when* he disagreed with his colleagues -on the fundamental prineiples of government, the B’shop retained his post and degraded the Christian -faith in his sermons. :r . A plain, man, he said, wa« bewildered and scandalised by such behaviour. Dr Barnes should demist frouy offen,sive 'criticism' 1 of his fellow-Cbristianr--until he -explained how he justified the equivocation - involved in reciting Christian 'creeds, 'while making no secret of 'his disbelief'"ln them. “No casuistry in Jesu’t books on moral theology can 'be quoted.” be d°rlerod, “to justify a man’s derlnrathli before God that ho believes in thvirgin birth arid the resurrection of riri-ist when enenlv in the pulpit he denies those doctrines.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1932, Page 8
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152CHURCH DISPUTE Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1932, Page 8
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