Cardinal says Catholics humbled by Anglicans' decision to join church

The Catholic Spirit ^ | 6/22/09 | Teresita Johnson

[ArrogantBustard]

AAM: You’ve been there. I haven’t. Do you think the description in Post Number 3 is fair, accurate, and in good taste?

[kalee]

I’ll ask my 75 year old Episcopalian mother and get back to you.

So far I see little humility on this thread.

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, I think it's hyperbolic, and certainly can be taken the wrong way. To the extent that it could be read as saying that everyone in TEC is a homosexual baby-killer, it's definitely wrong. But that isn't exactly what it says.

It's fair to point out that TEC is definitely a comfortable home for homosexual baby-killers, as they are running the denomination and are quite happy (note the new head of the Episcopal seminary who is an avowed lesbian and in an address or a sermon (can't remember which) declared that "abortion is a blessing" and that "our work is not done" until everybody could have one any time they wanted . . . and led her audience in a cheer or chant to that effect -- just creepy if you ask me.)

My real objection would be that the homosexual baby-killers who are currently running TEC are not "for Christ" and haven't been for a long, long time.

I don't see how we can avoid bad taste in discussing what my family's former home for six generations has become. These horrible people took over my church and destroyed it. I bear them no good will at all.

[AnAmericanMother]

Hard to be humble when you're mad as fire. As I said in a post up thread, the pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, anti-Christian cabal has stolen the church that my family was in for at least six generations (my gggg grandfather John Bale was baptised in St. Giles Cripplegate, City of London - so it's probably seven generations or his parents wouldn't have bothered.)

Don't disturb your mom. She's probably like my parents -- she's remained Episcopalian because she's found a quiet little parish where what's going on at the national level doesn't affect her. So long as they don't have to replace their rector, they'll be all right.

My parent's church owns its property under a deed of gift that will revert to the donor if anybody other than the parish (the national church for example) successfully asserts a claim to the church and the graveyard. They also have a very nice endowment with similar strings attached to keep 815's fingers off it. They can afford to call an orthodox pastor -- so long as such an animal exists. They are in their 80s, so this arrangement will most likely last out their time (although their bishop is retiring, so who knows what will happen next).

[nina0113]

I don’t plan on becoming a Roman Catholic ...

Neither did I! Coming up on ten years in the Church now.

[Romulus]

My wife has just assured me that “it’s brutal but it’s true”. She converted from TEC just a few years ago. She says: “the truth hurts. If you stay and do not speak and work against it, you are condoning it.”

I count that as a vote “for” Rom’s statement.

[AnAmericanMother]

Also, there's a big difference between your 75 year old mom and my pre-teen and teenage (at the time of our departure in 2003) children.

I could not in good conscience allow my children to remain in a church that officially approved fornication, adultery, homosexual sex, and the killing of little children (how do you think CHILDREN feel about that? "You are expendable, you little tick"), not to mention bishops that denied the divinity of Christ, the Resurrection, and the Trinity without any consequences from authority.

[AnAmericanMother]

Apropos of this discussion, see this thread:

Episcopal Priest: "God Rejoices in Abortion"

Johnson's* Law: It is impossible to parody the Episcopal Church, because they always catch up and pass you.

*Christopher Johnson of Midwest Conservative Journal.