UPDATE: Announced at 11am 21st March......Damian was right! Bishop Malcolm McMahon gets Liverpool! |
A Dominican for Liverpool?
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If my memory regarding Damian's past tips is true then it is highly unlikely to be Bishop McMahon.
Was it not the Holy Smoke blog that told the world that the new Archbishop of Cardiff was going to be Bishop Thomas Burns of Menevia when, a few days later it was announced that Westminster's George Stack had got the job?
On that basis alone DT must be off beam........but who will be the next man in Liverpool?
Maybe it's time to roll out Bishop Burns again....or is that wishful thinking on my part as a Menevian?
Here is how Damian posted (on his behalf I apologise for the awful grammar and, to be fair, he does say that there is a good chance that he is wrong - compelling journalism)
OK. This is Kremlinology – I'm repeating a RUMOUR and there's a good chance it will be proved wrong. Got that?
Fine. There are folk out there who say Bishop Malcolm McMahon of Nottingham, a Dominican, will be promoted to Liverpool. And for orthodox Catholics that's far from bad news. +Malcolm is a bit of an old Lefty, but a holy man with a lovely pastoral ministry. I think I'm right in saying that he's celebrated in the Extraordinary Form.
Let's wait and see.
Actually, I don't rate + McMahon as being a good choice for orthodox Catholics.
"Old Lefties" generally rate slightly below shoe level when it comes to being orthodox in my experience.
