Posted on 10/16/2010 8:13:15 PM PDT by marshmallow
An Anglican bishop has attacked his Church as "vicious" and "fascist" as he explained his decision to defect to the Roman Catholic Church.
The Rt Rev John Broadhurst, the Bishop of Fulham, accused the Church of England of breaking promises to make provisions for opponents of women's ordination.
He warned that the Pope's invitation to disaffected Anglicans to join the Catholic Church would appeal to traditionalists dismayed at their treatment.
His comments came as a parish in the Archbishop of Canterbury's own diocese became the first in the country to announce that it would defect to Rome, with one parishioner declaring: "The Pope's offer was the answer to our prayers."
St Peter's Church in Folkestone, Kent, has decided to join the Ordinariate, a system designed by the Vatican to allow Anglicans to convert while maintaining parts of their heritage.
Bishop Broadhurst, who announced his decision to resign on Friday, predicted that many more would leave the Church of England in the months ahead.
"I think the Ordinariate will cause a huge shock," he said.
"A lot of people have said it won't happen and have underestimated the impact that it will have.
"I don't feel I have any choice but to leave the Church and take up the Pope's offer. The General Synod has become vindictive and vicious.
"It has been fascist in its behaviour, marginalising those who have been opposed to women's ordination. We have not been given any space."
The bishop, who was one of three prelates at a secret Vatican summit earlier this year, said he was disappointed to be leaving the Church of England, but that the concerns of traditionalists had been ignored.
"The Pope generously made an offer providing a home for our Catholic heritage at the same time as the Church of England............
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James was the jealous “brother” of Jesus who belittled him after he arose from the dead and pushed the insane position that one goes to heaven because of “works”. That is a total contradiction to Paul in Romans ,Galatians, Ephesians etc. Paul wrote 13 of 27 books in the new testament and had much more credibility than James , the jealous son of Mary and Joseph. I give no credence to James and think his book should have been cut when the Cannons were selected 400 years after the resurrection of Christ. It is all in my blog here :http://antinomianism-salvation.blogspot.com/
You wrote:
“Wow!!do you really want to go there?”
I was there years ago.
“Is your “priest” a pedophile? ( one of thousands}.”
No, none of my priests have been. EVER. And that question of yours seems to be the typical Protestant admission of defeat in the argument. You apparently can’t argue the actual matter in hand so you bring up something that has nothing to do with me really and has nothing to do with the teachings of the Church.
“Now that is some real trash.”
What you’re writing is. What I wrote was simply true.
“If you would like to discuss the Gospel then that is a horrible way to start.”
Nope. Everything I wrote is true. Your opinion of the truth is irrelevant.
I posted scriptural based arguments. You posted a link to something that clearly didn’t even make sense. Run all you like. The truth will stand.
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