ROYAL BOMBSHELL: ‘Selfish’ King Warned He Must Abdicate For Endangering Nation by Queen’s Chaplain
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Dr. Gavin Ashenden is a British Catholic layman, author, and Associate Editor of The Catholic Herald, having converted from Anglicanism in 2019. He is a former Anglican bishop and served as Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II from 2008 to 2017, resigning to freely critique modern culture and defend orthodox Christianity.
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Background: Ordained in the Church of England in 1980, Ashenden was a university chaplain and senior lecturer at the University of Sussex for 23 years, holding a doctorate on the life of Charles Williams.
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Activism: During the 1980s, he smuggled Bibles and theology books to the underground church in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, facing interrogation by the KGB.
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Current Role: He is a prominent commentator on GB News and the BBC, hosts the podcast Merely Catholic, and runs the YouTube channel Ashenden Scripted.
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Conversion: He left the Church of England in 2017 after the consecration of women bishops, briefly served as a missionary bishop for the Christian Episcopal Church, and was received into the Roman Catholic Church in December 2019.
It does occur to me that many of the UK’s problems stem from colonialism where some of the most horrific things were done to the indigenous populations. They still are in certain places, and this is by no means unique to the UK.
Then, when industries were being developed, people from the colonies were encouraged to come here to work in them. When these industries hit the wall, the ‘foreigners’ were surplus to requirements and nobody cared that they had nowhere to go. They lived in poor areas where they developed their own way of life, and now it is all spilling over.
I don’t know what the answer is, but when you’ve treated people as inferior for so long, they tend, one day, to rise up and demand their place and if it means taking yours, tough luck.