Wasted spiritual chance in Irish disestablishment debate
The bishops' speeches on the Suspensory Bill reveal rigid self interest and a lack of pastoral empathy. They attack details, defend Protestant ascendancy, and fear Roman Catholic influence, yielding a missed chance to show Christian generosity toward Ireland and its Catholic majority.
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Duke of Edinburgh
Ireland
Rome
Oxford
Wilberforce
Armagh
Killaloe
England
Scotland
Convocation debates Colenso case and Irish church policy
The Upper House reports on the canonicity of the Capetown judgment in Colenso's case and approves Church of England spiritual validity, with dissent from some bishops. In Ireland disestablishment is proposed, rallying around Gladstone and the need to preserve establishment and endowments, while Westminster voices caution about the basis of the bishops' message.
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Colenso
Province of Canterbury
London
Capetown
Canterbury
LicHrigip
Natal
Canon Szymour
J. Bramstone
Westminster
Church of England
Canon Blakesley
J. W. Joyce
Lincoln
Ireland
Mr. Gladstone
Lichfield
Ely
Gloucester
Bristol
Jens
Denison
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Archbishop of Canterbury
Longley
York
Trish
Miles
Archbishop of
Tait
Thomson
Duke of Argyll
Spurgeon