Former Drumcree minister backs Royal Black in church controversy
A cleric who was for many years at the centre of the most controversial loyal order dispute has given a passionate defence of the Royal Black Institution '“ after the Church of Ireland questioned its theology.
Rev John Pickering served as the rector at Drumcree Church of Ireland parish through the area’s most heated parading controversies of the 1980s and 1990s.
He was speaking after the Church of Ireland published a report which criticised the doctrines of the Royal Black Institution (RBI).
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