tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post1122992763238362869..comments2024-03-28T00:17:55.823+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: An inexperienced mediocrity becomes Archbishop of CanterburyBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-42169746525843875312012-11-08T20:19:43.412+00:002012-11-08T20:19:43.412+00:00@Proph - 'meteoric rise' implies that he i...@Proph - 'meteoric rise' implies that he is some kind of phenomenon, but nothing could be further from the case.<br /><br />Don't take my word for it - read some of his writings (if you can bear to - they are about the level of public relations copy for a medium sized government department).<br /><br />A comparison with Benedict XVI is excruciatingly embarrassing in every way - yet up to Michael Ramsay (the last great A of C 1961-74), Anglican Primates were often more impressive figures than their contemporary Popes.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-57348982285323385712012-11-08T19:52:00.261+00:002012-11-08T19:52:00.261+00:00I read that he has been bishop for about a year. S...I read that he has been bishop for about a year. Such a meteoric rise in such a leftist climate immediately calls everything about him into question.Prophhttp://www.orthosphere.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-13492984583625213122012-11-08T12:56:28.202+00:002012-11-08T12:56:28.202+00:00It will be a change from inspissated and irrelevan...It will be a change from inspissated and irrelevant scholasticism to bureaucratic boilerplate. I wouldn't call it progress...Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-87796455473162825292012-11-08T11:53:08.530+00:002012-11-08T11:53:08.530+00:00But will he reduce the number of fatuous speeches ...But will he reduce the number of fatuous speeches emitted by his predecessor? It would be a Christian kindness if he did! David Duffhttp://duffandnonsense.typepad.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-68300525729351361692012-11-08T11:39:04.928+00:002012-11-08T11:39:04.928+00:00Can he possibly be worse than the appalling Rowan ...Can he possibly be worse than the appalling Rowan Williams, enemy of truth, beauty, and goodness, Destroyer of the Faith?JPnoreply@blogger.com