A secure pension.Dear editor, Rod MacHale of Elliot Lake Elliot Lake, city (1991 pop. 14,089), S central Ont., Canada, W of Sudbury. The focus of a 1950s uranium-mining boom, it is now a retirement home center. (May letters) may feel that retired Bishop Ron Ferris is to be congratulated for "standing by his convictions" in jumping to the Anglican Network in Canada, but I cannot agree with him. Call me a cynic cyn·ic n. 1. A person who believes all people are motivated by selfishness. 2. A person whose outlook is scornfully and often habitually negative. 3. , but I would have more respect for Bishop Ferris had he made the move before his retirement. Like his colleagues, Don Harvey and Malcolm Harding (retired bishops of the diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador, province, Canada Newfoundland and Labrador (ny  `fənlənd, ny and the diocese of Brandon respectively),
Bishop Ferris waited until his retirement (with a secure pension) before
jumping ship.
Had any of the three former bishops truly the courage of their convictions they would have resigned their bishoprics prior to their retirement. I find nothing laudatory laud·a·to·ry adj. Expressing or conferring praise: a laudatory review of the new play. laudatory Adjective (of speech or writing) expressing praise Adj. in such self-serving actions. Rene Jamieson Winnipeg |
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