Anglican bishop who blesses abortion and gay sex gets top job in Rome
by Jules Gomes, Rebel Priest:
A senior Anglican bishop who publicly opposes fundamental Roman Catholic doctrine on abortion and homosexuality has been appointed Chair of Governors of the Anglican Centre in Rome.
Michael Burrows, Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, who defied the official position of Catholic Church during the Irish Referendum on abortion in May, and announced he would vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment, will oversee the Anglican Communion’s headquarters for dialogue and unity with the Catholic Church from January 1, 2019.
Burrows was the first Irish bishop to declare his support for repealing the Eighth Amendment, according to Irish Times, calling the current law protecting the sanctity of human life in the womb “incorrigibly flawed.”
Meanwhile, Bishop Burrows’ ecumenical counterpart, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ossory Dermot Farrell, took a firm stand against the move to legalise abortion at his first chrism Mass in St Mary’s Cathedral Kilkenny asking if justice demanded terminating the life of the unborn child. In his sermon, Farrell decried sacrificing human life “to the false gods of usefulness and career.”
Burrows also flouted the doctrinal position of his archbishops from the Church of Ireland. Primate of all Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh Michael Clarke and Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson had opposed rescinding the amendment, saying “unrestricted access to abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, or indeed at any stage, is not an ethical position we can accept.”
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