[NYer]

I remember being at the opening ceremonies of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 in Rome, when pope John Paul II opened the Holy Door at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside The Walls. He invited the then-archbishop of canter-bury, Dr. George Carey, and an Orthodox archbishop to open the door together with him, three abreast in unity.

[caseinpoint]

Sad evidence that homosexuality tends to destroy whatever it touches.

[CWWren]

Henry VIII is immensely proud, if satan lets him know what’s cooking up here.

[wideawake]

The problem is that even if the Anglican Communion excises the cancer that is rotting the communion from the head, the remainder of the body will still be split into a more Orthodox and a more Reformed faction.

[Jim Noble]

It's interesting how heresy - real heresy - expands within the soul of the heretic until it displaces everything else.

Homosexualism and feminism are both Christian heresies which deny the created order and hence the Creator. Those Episcopalians who have been captured by these heresies just CAN'T LET THEM GO, not for a second.

Over time, EVERYTHING becomes about gay sex or equal "rights", and there's no room any more for Christ.

Amazing, and sad.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

That is a sadness for those, like myself, who have affection for the Anglican sensibility.

This comment resonates with me. I remember my visits to Anglican churches in England. I remember the emptiness, the short ceremony and talk of can't-remember-what by the Anglican divine. I also remember a middle-aged fellow in a tweed suit devoutly kneeling and praying with his common book. I recall Anglicans, whose faith seems to be dissolved in a cloud of contradictory sentiments, insisting that their children grow up churched, lest they turn out like the parents themselves--unchurched. I think God will reward the persistence of some of these Anglicans.

Among the British theologians, Anglican or denomenational, of the last couple hundred years you will find many of surpassing excellence, such as Bishop Butler. But with the good you find the tares. It is as if one hand of Anglicanism was busy tearing down and undermining what the other hand was trying to build up. The result was a collapse into the know-nothing-ism of the 19th century. Theology is bunk. Big words are bunk. Reasoning about God is bunk. History is bunk. Miracles are bunk. Everything is bunk. And now, the Anglican situation of today.

I suppose many causes led up to this situation. One material cause I venture to put forth is that Anglicanism cut itself off from prior history of Christian thought. This is quite evident from their books. Rather than applying St. Paul's "take what is good, leave the rest", I guess they thought it was all bunk and not worth considering. Thus they built their theology on a foundation of sand.