Posted on 10/04/2016 5:05:34 PM PDT by marshmallow
Thirty-six Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops from 19 countries are in Canterbury at the start of an historic week-long summit marking closer ties between the two traditions. Events will include a service in Rome on Wednesday (October 5) jointly led by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Pope Francis at which the bishops will be formally commissioned to work together in pairs.
Services at Canterbury Cathedral over the weekend have illustrated the deepening relationship between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church. On Saturday the Suffragan Bishop in Europe, David Hamid, delivered the homily at a Catholic Vigil Mass in the cathedral’s Undercroft. The Roman Catholic Archbishop-elect of Regina in Canada, Don Bolen, preached the sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Sunday morning.
Bishop David spoke of the growing sense of unity, common faith and common calling, while acknowledging that issues remained to be resolved. But he said only a little faith was enough for something new to be possible.
Archbishop-elect Don said it was a great privilege to be in Canterbury. He said the bishops had realised they had so much in common – including a common faith in God, a common baptism and the sharing of scriptures and creeds.
“We have come to realise we are bound by dear, dear affection,” he told the congregation.
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The current Anglican leadership won’t even be welcomed their own African prelates. How can they expect the Catholic Church to welcome them?
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=28551
Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, the Anglican primate of Nigeria, has said that the Church of England is following a “false gospel” and the faithful must combat “a globalized secular ideology which has established itself inside the Church.”
Now if they could just curtail the boatloads of islam filth Italy is going out and fetching. Time better spent.
As a Catholic, the African Anglicans are about the only ones I’m interested in.
I hope Catholicism thinks the same as you.
I will try to marshal my colossal international prestige to bring that about...
You got my vote!
But I’m a Methodist. :>)
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