BISHOP PHILIP EGAN - A SUMMARY CATHOLIC ORTHODOX CULTURE OF DEATH WALSINGHAM SHREWSBURY BISHOP MARK DAVIES

BISHOP PHILIP EGAN
A BRIEF SUMMARY & HIS ORDINATION

Pope Benedict's selection was conspicuously announced on 11 July, St Benedict's Day (an interesting fact in its own right!). ✓

The ordination of Msgr Philip Egan was on the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham (another interesting fact in it's own right) ✓

 He is a defender of the best aspects of the new evangelisation (i.e. keeping ALL the tradition and orthodoxy, but at the same time 'forward looking' (in the best sense of the phrase) i.e. St Paul ✓

He publicly defended Humanae vitae, describing it as infallible teaching." ✓

 The appointment of Bishop Philip, 56, has been heralded as perhaps the most potent sign yet of a significant Benedict XVI induced shift in the philosophical makeup of  English Catholicism. ✓

Choice of text from his homily

This message of Good News, and the civilisation of love it occasions, we Catholics must now communicate imaginatively, with confidence and clarity.....to the people of England, this wonderful land, Mary's Dowry....

We must offer this salvific message to a people,
sorely in need of new hope and direction disenfranchised by the desert of modern British politics, wearied by the cycle of work, shopping, entertainment, and betrayed by educational, legal, medical and social policy-makers who, in the relativistic world they're creating, however well-intentioned, are sowing the seeds of a strangling counterculture of death.

My brothers and sisters, today, the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom, of England's Nazareth, let's go forth from this Mass with joyful vigour, resolved in the Holy Spirit to help bring about the conversions needed – intellectual, moral and spiritual for everyone we meet to receive Jesus Christ, the Gospel of Life.... 

Please pray for me to the Lord Jesus, whose Heart yearns for us in the Blessed Sacrament, that I might be a humble and holy, orthodox, creative and courageous, Bishop of Portsmouth, one fashioned after the Lord's own.