I found much in the April issue of ET to encourage and even inspire. In every article I found a timeless truth of what every believer ought to be, to do, and to expect, all related with originality of thought and clarity of expression. ET remains a light in the land. However, there was a short news item, at the foot of page two, that sent me to my knees in prayer, and that I cannot shake from my conscience.
How much of my dismay, I wonder, is shared by my fellow Bible-believing Christians at the news that Roman Catholics have been granted the right to serve as the King’s representative to the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly? My question is not rhetorical; I really don’t have an answer. I think I would have at one time. No longer. The lack of analysis – and comment – attached to the story was also worrying.
As reported by ET, the decision by MPs to overturn a 325-year law has ‘clear[ed] the way for Lady Elish Angiolini KC to become the first Roman Catholic Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland since 1689’. In the course of the debate around the scrapping of the law, the prohibition on Roman Catholics representing the monarch was branded ‘a relic of the past’.
