Bishop Edwin Regan
Bishop of Wrexham
It
was recorded in the Catholic Herald of the 4 April 2003,
that when the Latin Mass Society complained that he only
permitted one traditional Mass per week in his diocese,
this grinning smug Modernist responded to the effect
that he was surprised that it was that much!
He then continued "One
of the problems is that other things get clustered
around it - a certain reluctance in some people to
accept Vatican II. It can be used as a way of
looking at the past which isn't entirely healthy." One
can only assume that the busy bishop has not had time
to get round to actually reading the documents of Vatican
II, which of course mandated that the liturgy of the
Latin Church should remain Latin! Sacrosanctum
Concilium, Vatican ll’s decree on the Sacred
Liturgy, states: 36 (1) The use of the Latin
language, with due respect to particular law, is
to be preserved in the Latin rites. The
comment about looking at the past in a way "which
is not entirely healthy" presumably means
that there are still some reactionaries who do not
share his lordship's view that the last 2000 years
has been one long unmitigated cock-up, from which we
were only rescued by the blinding insights of our post-Conciliar
shepherds.
He then concluded, "Where
it not for Vatican II, church attendance would be even
less." Some may be a little surprised
to learn that Vatican II was supposed to merely stop
church attendance from becoming "even less." After
all, we had been lead to believe, if my memory is serving
me correctly, that it was intended to usher in a brave
new glorious dawn of Catholicism! When the English
church has been reduced to a remnant, which will be
in less than 20 years at the present rate of implosion
of around 100,000 souls every three years, this irrepressible
grinning Modernist will no doubt be cheerily assuring
us that "Where it not for Vatican II, the Church
would have vanished even faster."
One is entitled
to wonder how his lordship arrived at his conclusion. It
is of course self-evident that in the Gnostic illuminated
mindset of our newChurch pioneers, facts and rational
arguments are not required. After all, if you have
your own private line to the Holy Spirit, who needs trivia
like facts and sound arguments? His lordship is
rather like a bus driver, who having swerved and knocked
down a couple of healthy young men and left them bleeding
to death in the road, proffers in his defence, "Had
I not taken the trouble to knock them down, they may
have come to an even stickier end." Which
I suppose could be true..... if you think about it long
enough. Nevertheless, I do not believe that one
could censure the young men in question if they did not
find this line of argument entirely convincing.
Jubilee
2000 Congress Report
Concerned readers
in Wales sent us copies of the Jubilee 2000 Congress
Report from the Wrexham Diocese. The Congress, held on
- 27th - 28th October 2000, spawned this official looking
report with the Jubilee Logo on its cover, which includes
such recommendations as: using "inclusive language",
demanding "more sensitive language from Rome (immediately
if not sooner)" and stopping use of the phrase "non-Catholic".
More seriously, it also calls for an end to the "exclusion
of other Christians from the Eucharist". Sadly,
we have come to expect this sort of fare from those with
a politically correct or dissenting agenda, but it was
very disturbing to see that the introduction to the report
had been written and signed by Bishop Edwin Regan of
Wrexham Diocese. His introduction began
"Three years ago, we asked ourselves a question: How could the Church
develop in our Diocese of Wrexham to reflect the Gospel more effectively?"
Not by implementing the above suggestions, obviously!
The report is clearly unrepresentative of what ordinary
faithful Catholics would expect and initial information
received suggests that not a few in Wrexham are very
unhappy about its recommendations.
Goodbye to another grinning Modernist
On 27 June 2012 it was announced that
Pope Benedict had accepted Bishop Regan's resignation.
