ACC's Fr. Corey French on the Robinson Matter

St. Edward's Anglican Church Indianapolis

 

Today we have received a number of phone calls and emails expressing concern and dismay over the actions of an Anglican Catholic priest, Calvin Robinson, who was a priest of the Diocese of the Midwest. This afternoon, Robinson’s license as a priest was revoked, and he no longer serves as a priest of the Anglican Catholic Church. A statement from the ACC regarding this situation is attached. Such conduct as Robinson’s has no place among Christians, and we are grateful to our  bishops for taking such swift and decisive action to maintain the good order of the Church and to speak with a clear witness.

—Fr. Corey

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Read the comment here at their Facebook page.  Note that Fr. French has turned off commenting.

There are rumors that Fr. French, a possible future bishop-elect from what I'm told, was intimately involved in getting Fr. Robinson's faculties yanked.  I he ever reads this post, I welcome his correction if I'm wrong, and I will apologize and edit or delete this paragraph accordingly.

But note Fr. French's pearl-clutching indignation:

"Such conduct as Robinson’s has no place among Christians, and we are grateful to our bishops for taking such swift and decisive action to maintain the good order of the Church and to speak with a clear witness."

Of course, French seems either oblivious to or dismissive of the fact that Robinson has answered this rhetorical nonsense of his, and that there is a torrent of support coming from both within and without the Continuum for Fr. Robinson, supporters who have eloquently given their own reasons why "such conduct as Robinson’s” is wholly understood by thinking Christians who understand the issues and the historical and theological context, and who don’t get their knickers in a twist over something so innocuous and humorous, but so radically twisted by Fr. French.

This has not gone down well for the ACC, and I think that in the coming days it may grow even worse for them.