The news that Fr Michael Seed of the Friars of the Atonement has been accused of selling papal knighthoods will come as no surprise to some. For his order, the Friars of the Atonement in NYC, to say they have "no idea" what he has been getting up to in London does rather make me wonder what the word order as in religious order might mean. For the purists among us, I know that, technically, he is a member not of a religious Order but of a religious congregation as there were not Orders allowed after the Jesuits in the 16th century.
I hope not to have to quote the Daily Mail too often but this report is worth scanning not least for the wonderful photographs.
See and behold.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370323/Tony-Blairs-priest-fixed-papal-knighthoods-cash.html
This is a complicated one. I can't help feeling that the story fits nicely with the Mail's anti-Blair (not that anyone needs an excuse to be anti-Blair but the Mail will do all it can to tie this in with New Labour/Labour/every-kind-of-liberalism if at all possible) and anti-gay agenda. Having said that Fr Seed's performance at a Quest Conference some years ago, along with his "entourage", left a number of people baffled and uncomfortable.
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