Posted on 10/20/2009 8:37:36 PM PDT by pissant
As many as 1,000 priests could quit the Church of England and thousands more may leave churches in America and Australia under bold proposals to welcome Anglicans to Rome.
Entire parishes and even dioceses could be tempted to defect after Pope Benedict XVIs decision to offer a legal structure to Anglicans joining the Roman Catholic Church.
His decree, issued yesterday, is a serious blow to attempts by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, to save the Anglican Communion from further fragmentation and threatens to wreck decades of ecumenical dialogue.
Dr Williams was notified formally only last weekend by the Vatican and looked uncomfortable at a joint press conference with the Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, to announce the plan.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Or Teresa giving Lurch a little shove during their Grand Canyon photo op.
It’s a BRITISH paper writing about the Church of England .. of course it’s going to come from that perspective.
But if the CoE and RCC and other Christian denominations (especially in Europe) don’t get together and forge alliances instead of their centuries-long bickering, all of Christendom is going to be in serious trouble.
It appears that Pope Benedict, in his wisdom, has established a new Rite, the Anglican Catholic Rite.
Absolutely brilliant.
Egads!
Amen to that!
The church that I loved is no more. I’m glad that the Bishop of Rome has opened his arms, good for him.
It would appear that Benedict XVI is a strategist. Well played, sir.
After the battle of Aughrim, the bodies of the Irish were left where they fell, to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field. Among them was an Irish officer, who was killed and stripped in the battle. But his faithful dog discovered his remains and guarded the body day and night; and though he fed with other dogs on the slain around, yet he would not allow them, or any thing else, to touch the body of his master. When all the dead bodies were consumed, the other dogs departed; but this one used to go in the night to the adjacent villages for food, and presently return to the place where his master's bones only were then left. Thus he continued from July, when the battle was fought, till January following, when one of Colonel Foulk's soldiers, who was quartered in the neighborhood, happening to go near the spot, the dog, fearing he came to disturb his master's bones, rushed upon the man, who unslung his musket on the instant, and shot the poor animal dead. He expired faithful as he had lived.
Yes, payback. Might just collapse old King Henry’s wet dream.
That is how liberals “think.” Results are irrelevant. The Process is everything. Actually results are failure, any results. They leave nothing for diplomats and professors to do.
Vultures picking on the carcass!
I wonder what Jesus would say about all of this?
oh my word...is that photo a joke or are those two actually
episcopalian priests?
And now you know why Muslims hate dogs: they can be loyal.
He’d likely be pleased. Just as He would likely be pleased when the Eastern Church folds back in.
Yes, you are quite right. He speaketh with forked tongue on many of the issues of the day in the church.
It is worse. The one on the left with the purple shirt is a bishop. He formerly was married and has children but after retiring from his diocese, he “outed” himself and then later married the “queen” on his left in the picture. Every time I see this picture, I cringe.
That will sure cut the numbers down...
How about the ELCA Lutherans? Any chance the dissidents could be included in the welcoming????
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