At least we know that Calvin Robinson will not be among those ostensibly raised to the Episcopate by the Society of Saint Pius X on 1 July. Or do we? He is in Old Catholic Priest's Orders, so the late Richard Williamson might have laid hands upon him, and someone probably will. Then watch Robinson ordain any and every fanboy. It is a story as old as the Church Herself.
Robinson is clearly a tortured soul. Since the Church of England refused to ordain him, he has joined a different denomination every year, lasting only nine days in last year's, and with the fifth and latest being the English Catholic Church, Sarumites in fiddleback chasubles, whose own claimed membership is 315 souls, albeit "in 35 countries". Which 35 countries, exactly? It has one fifth that many congregations.
When Donald Trump was last President, Robinson was an ICT teacher at a North London comp, with a sideline in videogames. It is always videogames. But in September, a gamer was raised to the altars by the body that at least two of Robinson's former affiliations and his present one were forever having to explain why they were not. You can keep your console and still find consolation.
And you don't half need it, if you have expressed your opposition to immigration by moving to another country, your monarchism by moving from a monarchy to a republic, and your integralism-without-the-Pope by moving to the land of Article VI Clause 3 and of the First Amendment. Integralism-without-the-Pope is also the de facto position of the SSPX, and will become definitively so on 1 July.
Like Fr Davide Pagliarani, to whom they will be subject even though he made no claim to be a bishop, most or all of the consecrees on that day will never have been Catholic priests or deacons in good standing. Nor has Robinson, so expect him, if not to end up in their confection, then at the very least to pass through it.
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