Delingpole: Last Rites Should Not Have Been Denied to Slain Catholic MP
JAMES DELINGPOLE
17 Oct 2021
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The police reportedly denied access to a Catholic priest who wanted to give the Last Rites to Sir David Amess MP after his fatal stabbing.
Local priest Father Jeffrey Woolnough told The Telegraph that he rushed to the scene of the attack and explained to officers that “I was the local Catholic priest and showed them my card but I wasn’t allowed. They said no one was allowed on the crime scene.”
“Now we know more about what happened I can perhaps understand it, but it’s still a great disappointment for any Roman Catholic – they want to receive the Last Rites… I always use the analogy of priests working on the battlefields in the world wars. They were anointing the men as they were dying,” he said.
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Now I wonder how it would be handled for other religions? I can’t imagine that a Muslim Man would be treated this way. Maybe a Jewish rabbi because anti-semitism is OK in Protestant England.
Argh!
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