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On Tuesday the 20th October 2015, under the heading The Catholics of England and Wales want answers, we drew attention to the fact that Bishop Peter Doyle, of Northampton Diocese, had given a completely Modernistic interview to Vatican Radio during the Rome Synod.
In that interview, Bishop Doyle suggested: ''I suppose theological anthropology - what I mean by that is that our understanding, from the Scripture, of man and woman... there is no room at the moment for a same-sex relationship.''
In answer to a follow-up question from the interviewer, Bishop Doyle went on to suggest that greater theological exploration of anthropology needed to be encouraged and that this ''challenge'' would even require a further synod of its own.
We noted that these statements constituted a denial of Divine Revelation, Dogma, Doctrine, Divine and Natural Law, Original Sin, Concupiscence, Redemption, Grace, Nature and Sacraments. As such it was an example of sheer Modernism.
Powerful Anti-Catholic PressureÂ
In the concluding section of our 20th October article, we noted that both Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Bishop Peter Doyle, England's representatives at the Rome Synod, seemed to be very focused on the interests of the ''LGBT Westminster'' group, rather than on the objective truths about marriage and family life.
We also wanted to know what the connections were between the promoters of LGBT ideology in Rome and the new-world-order-building socialist George Soros. For example, the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics conference (!) on Saturday 3rd October 2015 - the meeting at which Martin Pendergast described the strong support of Cardinal Vincent Nichols for the ''LGBT Westminster'' group - was also attended by Peter Matjasic.
Catholic News Agency (CNA) had highlighted the fact that Matjasic is a representative of George Soros' Open Society Foundations, one of the most influential funders in the world. According to the foundation's own website, it expended some $827 million globally in 2014 alone. Also present at that conference was former Irish leader Mary McAleese. At the time, Peter Matjasic tweeted that she had given, ''a compelling condemnation of Roman Catholic doctrine on homosexuality.'' Clearly, some powerful interests were at work.
ACTA in Portsmouth
We have revisited all of the above facts, because the website of the dissenting group A Call to Action (ACTA) is now advertising Bishop Peter Doyle as one of two key-note speakers at a conference to be held on 27th February on the theme of ACTA's ''Smelling of the Sheep'' survey.
As with the hearty public welcome extended by Archbishop Malcolm McMahon to the dissenting ACTA group - when they met for their annual conference in Liverpool on 24th October 2014 - this provides another troubling example of the public acceptance of the dissenting ACTA group by members of the hierarchy in England and Wales.
Just to give a little context to that fact, let us recall that Terry Duffy, in his capacity as then local co-ordinator for ACTA in Liverpool, spoke on Radio Lancashire about an article that we had written for the Protect the Pope website in 2014. During his radio interview, Mr. Duffy stated that ACTA did not see it as at all corrosive that ACTA was campaigning for same-sex ''marriage'' or women ''priests''.
Bishop Doyle to share the floor with Fr. Daniel O'Leary
On top of all of this, Bishop Peter Doyle is to share the floor at this month's upcoming ACTA meeting with none other than Fr. Daniel O'Leary.
Regular readers will recall that we highlighted this gentleman a couple of times last year, because of his involvement with the dissenting ACTAÂ group.
Indeed, we were also concerned because Fr. Daniel O'Leary was a speaker at the 40th anniversary of the radically dissenting Quest group in 2013. This was the group that the late Cardinal Basil Hume had banned from the official directory, because of its dissent from the magisterium and promotion of homosexual activity. At that event, Fr. Daniel shared the floor with Sara Maitland and Terence Weldon. On the day, Sara Maitland wore a T-shirt bearing the improbable legend Fag Hag for Jesus. Terence Weldon is familiar to British readers due to his connection to the so-called ''Soho Gay Masses'' and his public promotion of homosexual activity via his blog Queering the Church.
When Fr. Daniel O'Leary spoke at ACTA's national meeting at Leeds in 2013, he described the Catholic Church's central dogma on the Fall and Redemption in terms of a mere ''theological approach''. Further, he suggested that this ''approach'' is one that ''tends to be conservative, dualistic, safe, legalistic''; prior to arguing that it is also ''inadequate'' and ''utterly destructive'' when presented as ''the only Christian story of our condition.'' As if that were not all, O'Leary added that this had led to the splitting of the Church.
None of this prevented the Archdiocese of Liverpool from officially advertising Fr. Daniel O'Leary's talk at Sandymount Retreat Centre last March.
A Lamentable Development
Neither, if ACTA's own website is to believed, has it prevented Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth from allowing Bishop Peter Doyle and Fr. Daniel O'Leary to attend an ACTA meeting as keynote speakers in his diocese this month. Worse than that, ACTA's website clearly states: ''This event has the blessing of Bishop Philip Egan, RC Bishop of Portsmouth.''
In the past we have praised Bishop Egan here for a number of splendid things that he has done for the Church in these lands. These include: stating at his consecration that he hoped to be an orthodox bishop and asking the faithful to pray for this intention; promotion of Eucharistic adoration; public promotion of Humanae Vitae; strong public stance against euthanasia; warning that politicians and others who dissent about abortion, sexual ethics and homosexual unions are not to receive Holy Communion; promotion of deeper faith amongst the faithful in his diocese; efforts to spread the Faith through authentic evangelization; and his welcome of the exiled Fr. Serafino Lanzetta (FFI) to run a parish with frequent Traditional Latin Mass offered in his diocese.
It will be remembered that Bishop Philip Egan was the named ''reserve'' bishop to stand in if either Cardinal Vincent Nichols or Bishop Peter Doyle had been unable to attend the Rome Synod last October.
If Bishop Philip Egan has indeed given his blessing for the dissenting ACTA group to hold this meeting in his diocese, then this is a truly lamentable development and a serious source of scandal to the faithful throughout England. Update: Yes, sadly the Portsmouth Diocesan website is even advertising this event.
Powerful interests are bringing pressure to bear on the Church everywhere. All of us will have to give an account to God for our actions at the end of our lives. We must pray much for the Pope, bishops and priests.
''But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved'' (Matthew 24:13). Â
