References to the "Walsingham Chapel" at the Santiago Retreat Center, and to the "Riverside Ordinariate Group" have been removed from the Blessed John Henry Newman website, I note. The links are still on Google and Facebook, but clicking produces a message that that content has been removed. We will see how long the Newman Academy continues to search for supporters. One does not wish to stifle initiative, but I felt that more thought had gone into the optics of the upgraded website than into the practical details of the proposed projects.it sounds as though someone has recognized that blue-sky projections and hype don't serve the OCSP's interests.
"On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of the conditions. . . . It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews." -- Annie Dillard
Monday, October 3, 2016
Backtrack In Irvine
My regular correspondent reports,