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To: ahadams2
OK, let's see..the ECUSA breaks up..we have a long and protracted legal battle to hold onto our property and treasure, so we join the RCs and get to fund the settlements for the pervert priests? Not me...
5 posted on 12/04/2003 9:01:47 AM PST by ken5050
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To: ken5050
we have a long and protracted legal battle to hold onto our property and treasure, so we join the RCs and get to fund the settlements for the pervert priests?

I don't think this is true. They're talking about a Uniate relationship, we would have our own bishops and ecclesiastical structure with our dioceses. We would not become a part of the local RC diocese.

11 posted on 12/04/2003 9:38:26 AM PST by trad_anglican
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To: ken5050
so we join the RCs and get to fund the settlements for the pervert priests?

I wouldn't think so if it is a different church akin to the Eastern Catholic churches affiliated with Rome. Such churches have substantial autonomy in ordering their own affairs, and retain the eastern tradition of married clergy. Even Anglican clergy that have entered the Western rite and become Catholic priests have been allowed to remain married. I would doubt that any liability for sins of the recent Latin priests would devolve upon any new Anglican Use congregations. That said, I do hope that the Vatican is relatively flexible in their negotiations with FIF.

14 posted on 12/04/2003 9:47:00 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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