A follow-up on a link I posted last week.

From X marks the spot for today’s England

“… the modern Church of England is considering dropping St. George … as England’s patron saint.”

Apparently the change is widely favored among the C of E’s leadership. It is not going over so well in England’s pews, let alone pubs. Rod Dreher, tongue somewhat in cheek, captures this reaction:

“Lord have mercy. These people. Ashamed of St. George! (Who may not have actually existed, but that’s not the point). Look, why don’t these sherry-sniffing buttercups just surrender now and spare their enemies the indignity and tedium of having to beat up a bunch of sniveling jellyfish? I swear, you could arm the choirs of the ten Bible churches closest to where I sit deep in the heart of Texas with pool noodles and bullhorns, and they could run half the marmalade-spined clerics of the Church of England over the White Cliffs of Dover like a herd of shrieking Gadarene schoolgirls.

Poor Church of England. Whoever thought it would end like this?”

See also the comments there and at the original Daily Mail story.

I must confess to the very un-Christian reaction of Schadenfreude: The Anglican leadership overseas is getting quite worked up about the women bishops and gay priests of the Episcopal Church here in the USA. Now they have something of their own to squirm about!