Je suis au courant de cette histoire, mais il est nécessaire d'avoir un point de vue nuancé et informé

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Je suis en possession des renseignements très confidentiels, mais l'essentiel à retenir c'est que Mgr Hepworth a été mal-représenté par une grosse indiscrétion de la part d'un tiers. Le processus des ordinariats est toujours en place aux États-Unis et en Australie, et la situation au Canada semble rectifié selon le père Christopher Phillips (prêtre catholique d'usage anglican).

D'une façon générale, un homme au pied du mur n'accepte pas n'importe quoi sans prendre le temps pour réfléchir ou négocier. Pour mettre mes choses en perspective, je me souviens de ce qui s'est passé en mai 1988 avec Mgr Lefebvre. On se méfie quand on déplace les buts ou quand ça sent le soufre!

Je vous prie de garder l'esprit ouvert, et suis à votre disposition pour toute question que je serais en mesure de répondre.

Père Anthony Chadwick, prêtre de la TAC

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Thanks again Fr. Phillips, for your good offices. We all owe you a debt for your many efforts to sabotage the rumor mill.

I think a rush to judgement against Abp. Hepwoth inappropriate. I am personally in no position to defend Abp. Hepworth's past history — nor to condemn him, as few of the things I have seen written against him have included substantiation. I have met him, in fact I had breakfast with him once, and we discussed the constitution. Whatever his past history, or his private faults, I do know he has publicly done a lot to make the apostolic constitution happen, and that he has publicly stated that he is willing to give up his own ministry in order to further it. In this case it appears to me that there may have been miscommunication and misunderstanding.

Most importantly the letter was excerpted selectively by David Virtue, quotes may have been taken out of context, all, one strongly suspects, to present the case in the worse possible light. I suspect that the Abp. was responding to perceived injustices againt his people, and at worse he may be guilty of putting a raw emotional response in writing in a private communication — and how many of us have not made a similar mistake? This does not justify Hepworth bashing, which strikes me as uncharitable, as well as imprudent if we wish to further the success of Anglicanorum Coetibus.

I see no reason to believe that Abp. Collins was acting with other than good will in carrying out the wishes of the Holy Father as expressed in Anglicanorum Coetibus, and his conversation with Fr,. Phillips should resolve any doubts. I further think we should be most grateful for his efforts on behalf of our Canadian Anglican Catholic brethren.

I certainly do not want to blame anybody in this difficult situation, where I know people are working hard and with good will. However, I think there may be a valuable lesson in this, and I would like respectfully to make one suggestion. I know from military and Homeland Security Planning how important both communications between different services and organizations are, and also how important Public Affairs are. I know high clergy are busy, overworked men who have to carefully budget their time, but I would respecfully recommend that time spent on communications and getting info. out to the interested public all along saves more time than is lost by having to deal with nonsense like this. The former works to avoid such misunderstanding, and in the latter case, when people feel they are being left in the dark, it leaves a vacuum that an enemy or mischief maker is always happy to fill.

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