Anthony Hogg of Victoria, Australia, insists on disseminating via his blog misleading and inaccurate information about Bishop Seán Manchester. He places reliance on the most unworthy and suspect sources imaginable. Even when corrected he contests what he is told and wants to interogate anyone supportive of Bishop Manchester as though he was the Inquisition itself. Someone attempted to correct Anthony Hogg on the matter of a private residence often used by the bishop and his wife. The person in question, having read Anthony Hogg's earlier misinformation, responded:
You are falling into the trap of employing false and misleading allegations made by those with an axe to grind. This time the piece of misinformation you have used originates with Barbara Green who has repeatedly stated that a property on the south coast of England sometimes occupied by Bishop Manchester and his wife is a church. It is nothing of the sort and has never been described as a church by anyone except Barbara Green.
"From my recollection, the picture in question actually had a sign in the window, with a 'Holy Grail Church' label on it. That'd be an unusual thing to put on a private retreat. How are you privy to such information? How do you know if it's his retreat or not? The item I referred to was a photograph," Anthony Hogg replied. The person attempting to correct him had stated:
It has always been described by Bishop Manchester as his private retreat. It does contain a private chapel, but it is not a church and never has been. Repeating Barbara Green's malicious allegations is an indication of partiality - something you try to deny. She knows the property is not a church.
Does it really matter how the person commenting on Anthony Hogg's blog is privy to such information? Surely what matters is that Anthony Hogg is clearly not privy to accurate information and appears more than content to replicate malicious and misleading propaganda from an entirely unreliable source. The photograph he refers to was uploaded onto a hostile website by a particularly unpleasant individual who makes open threats toward Bishop Manchester and defames him. He has published the bishop's private address alongside clandestinely taken images of his retreat with extreme incitement of hatred. Had Anthony Hogg first examined the picture a little more carefully he would have found that there is no "sign in the window" - only a sign over the porch to the main entrance of the bishop's private retreat. That sign reads "Holy Grail" without any attachment of the word "Church." But, then, Anthony Hogg seems to prefer to rely on hostile sources while proclaiming his neutrality as a "Baptist" in the struggle between opposing forces of light and darkness.
