It happened in the 17th 18th centuries for the same reasons—spiritual corruption.
Should have split long ago.
Resisting strong delusion is hard work..
No one will miss the “Church” of England.
From the Catholic side, it used to be ‘tsk, tsk, pity the poor Anglicans/Episcopalians, but their apostasy and self-demolition could never happen to us.’ And, then, as if in direct response to our arrogance and self-regard, along came a certain Jesuit from Argentina... and we ain’t laughing so much these days.
Francis is trying to keep up with C of E.
I was Christened in the Anglican Church and Confirmed at age 14....
Its because of my parents influence and teaching and my early membership in the Anglican Church that I am a Bible believing Christian and a Conservative today...
and no I am not an Episcopalian nor one of those so called “evangelicals” whatever those are...
I claim the term, Protestant, and I adhere to TULIP...as my Huguenot ancestors did...
I was privilege last year to attend a service in an 800 yo Anglican Church in Ipswich, England that my grandfather and generations of his forebears had been Christened and married and buried from...
The Communion service was exactly as it had been 50 years ago when I participated as a teenager in my own local church...
and the people believed and joined in still...
There may have been ugly things said about the Anglican Church but that little corner of the world the service was attended by believing Christians...
Granted they were Low Church as I had been but the practices are the same all over the world...
BTW it was at my Anglican Church as a child in the 50s that I learnt the Moslems hated me and wanted to kill me because I was a Christian...
If the churches in America had taught their members the same there might be more of a united front against the Islamic invaders today and not the pandering and egg shells that goes on in Minneapolis and elsewhere...
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
I feel badly for Mr. Sabisky. Not so much because he is right in his despair about the future of his religious confession, but rather because he does not grasp it’s current state. The CofE is, and has been for quite some time, deeply and profoundly heretical by any metric of small “o” orthodox Christianity. Arguably it is simply apostate. That he, as a self professed “conservative” Anglican, does not grasp this pretty much says all that needs to be said about how bad things have gotten there.
Post Vatican II “Catholic” church: take note. This is your future if you don’t convert (revert?).
Henry VIII’s fault.
Well “I” split. Liberals (who support queers) poison everything they touch. I won’t partake of the poison. I miss what it was, I do not miss what it has become.