Posted on 03/31/2021 7:47:05 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Albany, New York prelate refused 'to compromise the faith that was once and for all delivered to the saints.'
ALBANY, New York, March 31, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – After facing condemnation from an official church tribunal for ordering clergy not to perform homosexual “marriages,” Bishop William Love of Albany resigned from his see after a long-running conflict with the Episcopal Church.
After the November 2018 implementation of “trial rites” in The Episcopal Church (TEC), which prevented bishops from prohibiting same-sex “marriages” in their diocese, Bishop Love issued an eight-page letter to his faithful, explaining that the new law would not be implemented in his diocese, since it would force him “to compromise the faith that was once and for all delivered to the saints.”
Same-sex “marriage” was “in direct conflict and contradiction to God’s intent for the sacrament of marriage as revealed through Holy Scripture,” he continued, noting that such relations were “a distortion of His design in creation and as such … to be avoided.”
The cleric faced opposition from his brother clergy, resulting in restrictions being imposed upon him just a few months later, in January 2019. Charges were then levied against him, and he subsequently faced a canonical tribunal in June 2020.
Love did not deny the charges but argued that he had not violated canon law, since the new resolution held no canonical status, and thus he had acted only in accord with the canonically approved Book of Common Prayer, and the catechism.
Bishop Love was found guilty of “failing to abide by the Discipline and Worship of The Episcopal Church,” a decision that he warned would “severely impact” his ministry as bishop.
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Alas, fellow Catholics, this is us in a few years.
He went against a core doctrine of his organization.
The sad thing is that he has few places to go. Often Episcopal priests would convert to Catholicism to become ordained but with the Catholic Church now sliding toward liberal doctrine that is a doubtful outcome. There’s always the possibility of joining a traditional conservative Protestant sect but those are few and far between.
The leadership of our Episcopal church is all leftist. The rector and choir directors are both gay. The church hosted BLM vigils and has a white fragility seminar available to parishioners. We no longer pledge and we’re looking for a new church. There are people there whom I’ll miss, but the institution is moving in a direction that is hostile to people like us.
Traditional. Latin. Mass.
Episcopals: Church of the High Holy Anus and Sainted Rectal Prolapse.
What are "trial rites" in regards to homo-marriage?
"Do you, Bruce, take this man, to love and to hold, to fondle and to sodomize, until death do you part a different boy-toy strikes your fancy?
Regards,
You’re absolutely right. A dozen years ago, Anglicanorum coetibus might have provided a suitable exit strategy. Then Bergoglio happened, and all bets are off. For the traditionalist Anglican, crossing the Tiber at this point would be out of the frying pan and into a fire that’s just getting warmed up.
Remember when this marriage redefinition thing got started, proponents were falling over themselves with promises never to force priests to violate their consciences. They forgot that faggots always lie.
That's the scary thing, that the "mainstream" Episcopalian church now embraces perversion.
Pray for Rev. Love, a brave man of God.
Which one? Thou shalt do as CNN dictateth?
He will probably join ACNA, Anglican Church in North America, a thriving faithful alternative to the moribund TEC.
Seriously. He failed to promote sodomy.
Bugger me! How dare he.
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