The Red Hat goes to Armagh
The Vatican has just announced that the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Seán Brady, is to be made a cardinal. The Consistory -- the ceremony at which Dr Brady will be created a cardinal -- will be held in Rome on 24 November.
Comments
I am sure the new cardinal will receive congratulatory messages from the " main " Protestant churches .
Perhaps a good first question for him would be : Do you recognise the Protestant churches as truly Christian churches ?
And his answer would be I recognise them as Protestant churches, just not Catholic churches. They don't want to be Catholic churches so why do they care. They are Christians, and we accept that but the communions they are members of are not the same as the Catholic Church. As I said before, we don't complain (well not too much) about the Anglican communion in Ireland calling itself the Church of Ireland as if it were still the established church and calling St Anne's Cathedral "Belfast Cathedral".
Well done to Sean Brady by the way - delighted for him and glad the hat is coming back to Armagh. We now have a veritable Irish block of cardinals.