Michael Coren: apostle of apostasy?

Michie · Aug 14, 2023

Michael Coren - for a while a convert to Catholicism (1984), then an evangelical (1990s), then a Catholic again (2004 - 2014) - is now an Anglican minister. One thing is clear, and highly unfortunate - Michael Coren has become adept at apostasy. Pray for him.

Mr. Coren now claims to have found the real Gospel. His current views, however, approximate those of a religious socialist, and are very different from those beliefs to which he passionately wed himself a decade ago.

Divorced from reason and charity, Coren should not be surprised that he might one day find himself divorced and his marriage declared null.

(H)is wife, Bernadette, a philosophy teacher at Humber College, acknowledges he often crosses the line. “Oh yeah. He goes way over the top,” she says, “but that’s the shock element, the sharpened needle. He has to keep sharpening it, otherwise he gets dull.” She believes her husband’s writings force people to think, to “turn up their mental soil every once in a while.” But Coren dug a deep hole with her when, in one diary entry, he depicted Mother Teresa getting looped in a bar. Bernadette, a practising Roman Catholic, took offence. “Sometimes he’s so lurid I’m surprised - I say to myself, ‘Who is this man I’m sleeping with?'” - Cloak and Dagger | [ ] Review of Journalism : The School of Journalism

Who, indeed, is Michael Coren?

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