Portsmouth Catholic Diocese

Bishop Crispian Hollis

With acknowledgement to Christian Order

Pope St Pius X wrote of Modernists, " ...they proceed to diffuse poison through the whole tree, so that there is no part of Catholic truth which they leave untouched, none that they do not strive to corrupt" [Pascendi Dominici Gregis, #3].

Crispian Hollis sells-out the Catholic faith on national television before millions

Bishop Crispian Hollis of Dementia Central, i.e. "the Portsmouth Diocese", is another post-Conciliar modernists who sees his role as a wind-up toy for liberal secularists.  True to his type, he is far more comfortable explaining away the faith than promoting it.  His soft-pedalled the Church's teaching on contraception before million of people on national television during a BBC Newsnight appearance on 20 April 2005, articulating the rebellious foundation upon which the secular Counterchurch is being constructed in these Isles:

Newsnight: And according to many in the Catholic Church, Bishops must be able to come up with their own answers to the problems in their own diocese. Crispian Hollis wants for example to ordain some married men, its his own way of coping with the crisis in the Church, another is respecting the decision of Catholics who disobey on issues such as birth control.

Bishop Hollis: It’s got to be a conscientious decision taken prayerfully and all these sorts of things and even at the end of the day if that’s what they feel they have to do then that is a decision I have got to respect.

Newsnight: It’s very interesting, even though it goes against the formal teaching of the Church?

Bishop Hollis: I think so, because they have made that decision on very good grounds. It is not a decision that is taken lightly.

The interviewer concluded that "The pastors of the Church in Britain understand their flock and have tended to avoid raising difficult doctrines that they know many people cannot accept."

This anti-Gospel according to Crispian, Cormac & Co. would be very familiar to Protestants, for whom DIY-doctrine is the soft norm.  It is the kind of secular humanism with prayer prefigured in 1819 by Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich:

The autonomous, self-absolving, illogical and self-contradictory English Church of Crispian Hollis and CAFOD mirrors this diabolic state concretised in corporate plans, pie charts and soulless bureaucratisation.