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Bishop Lang of Clifton Diocse |
Courtesy of
The Catholic Herald...
The Diocese of Clifton has cancelled a lecture which was due to be
delivered by the Catholic Professor Tina Beattie as a result of her
support for legalising same-sex marriage.
The professor at the
University of Roehampton was scheduled to deliver a talk on “Mary:
Mother of God and a model of a pilgrim people – Lumen Gentium’” but a
recent update to the online programme stated that the talk for later
this month was cancelled without elaboration.
A statement from
Clifton diocese clarified Professor Beattie would no longer be speaking
on behalf of the diocese. A spokesman for the diocese said: “Over the
course of the last year, Clifton diocese has put on a series of
different lectures to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of
the Second Vatican Council.
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Controversial dissident Catholic: Beattie |
“Subjects have included among others;
‘A Word for life – Dei Verbum’, ‘For the life of the world: Vatican II
and the mission of the Church today – Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes’
and ‘A Church reaching out to other faiths and to people of good will –
Nostra Aetate and Dignitatis Humanae’.
“Speakers have included
Bishop Declan Lang; Fr James Hanvey SJ, Fr Timothy Menezes, Professor
Paul Murray and Professor Gavin D’Costa. “In September 2011,
Professor Tina Beattie was invited to speak on ‘Mary: Mother of God and a
model of a pilgrim people – Lumen Gentium’.
“In the light of the
controversy over a recent letter which appeared in the Times, signed by
Professor Beattie and 27 others, about proposals to extend marriage to
same-sex partnerships, in discussion with Professor Beattie, Clifton
Diocese has decided to cancel the lecture.”
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Deo gratias, indeed!
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