SSPX goes on trial in Britain, fails in bid to buy church

On July 15, the SSPX's bid to buy a disused Anglican church (St. George's, Gorton, in east Manchester) was rejected by the Commissioners of the Church of England. This came after more than a hundred letters letters of objection to the sale of the church reached the offices of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester. More on the actual decision here and here.

For more on the background to the decision, please read this:

Persecution Rising
SSPX Goes on Trial in Britain

(Posted 07/15/09 www.RemnantNewspaper.com) Today, July 15, 2009, the SSPX goes on trial in Britain accused of being a threat to the peace and welfare of society. The venue for this show trial is, however, no legal court of the land but rather the Church of England’s Commissioners offices in London.

The question to be formally decided by the sitting Committee for church buildings (uses and disposals) is: Can we sell a building to the SSPX in light of the Bishop Williamson comments about the Holocaust, or, as one Liberal Democrat Councillor put it, can the Church of England sell a building to “the church of latter-day Holocaust deniers.”

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