Bruce Kent, one of the most divisive Catholic priests of his generation in the state of the United Kingdom who had passed away at the age of 92.
Some details about Bruce Kent:
He was a well-known prophetic and compelling figure who virtually single-handedly shook English Catholicism out of its lethargy, studied moderation, and automatic avoidance of all things political, according to his admirers — who outnumbered his enemies by a massive margin.
Monsignor Kent’s activities, such as exercising the Polaris nuclear submarine stationed on the island’s western coast, leading mass demonstrations against the deployment of US cruise missiles on the main Bruce Kent’s involvement in the great Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament during its revival in the 1980s and 1990s also, according to his opponents, was abhorrent behavior for an ordained member of a religion that embraced nuclear deterrent grounds.
Kent was not a striking figure and was emollient even when attacked and assaulted by his critics. He followed Christ’s example of turning the other cheek, which is commonly cited but infamously difficult to follow in practice.
Tributes pour in for Haringey’s’ peace hero’ Bruce Kent, who has died:
Bruce Kent’s involvement in the great Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament during its revival in the 1980s and 1990s also, according to his opponents, was abhorrent behavior for an ordained member of a religion that embraced nuclear deterrent grounds.
Bruce Kent was a well-known vice-president of CND and also a known vice-president of Pax Christi and the Campaign for the Abolition of War’s Emeritus Current president of his passing. Bruce was married a Catholic priest for the Diocese of Westminster in the year of1958 after compulsory service in the Royal Tank Regiment and a law degree from Brasenose University in Oxford. Before leaving the priesthood in 1987, he served in many London parishes, including Euston, as Cardinal Heenan’s secretary but as the RC Chaplain to the University College London.
“It was his Christian faith that led him to condemn nuclear weapons as fundamentally evil since they said even without their use, the nuclear deterrence itself rests on a willingness to commit murder,” the family said in a release.
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