It just isn't cricket Buckley warns bishop

ONE of the North's best-known priests electrified a Yorkshire crowd last week by bowling bouncers to two of the county's favourite controversies.
Speaking at the Yorkshire Post Literary luncheon last Thursday, Mgr Michael Buckley declared his firm belief in the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection of Christ, and urged Yorkshire cricket club to sort its problems out.
Although not mentioning his name, Mgr Buckley's support for the Virgin Birth was plainly aimed at Dr David Jenkins, the former professor of Theology at the University of Leeds who denied a number of basic Christian tenets shortly before his induction as Anglican Bishop of Durham at York Minister last summer, Mgr Buckley, parish priest of St Joseph's Tadcaster, said that people who cast doubt on such subjects should "speculate in the privacy of their homes and not in public.
Speaking next, the Yorkshire captain and wicketkeeper, David Bairstow, fielded Mgr Buckley's criticism with, "You have Pope John Paul. We just have Pope Geoffrey",
At the luncheon, for which Bishop Wheeler of Leeds said grace, Mgr Buckley was recommending his new prayer book, The Treasury of the Holy Spirit, of which he sold 57 copies.