Posted on 03/18/2012 10:06:43 AM PDT by marshmallow
(Reuters) - Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, who has agonized about schisms in the Anglican Communion over women and gay bishops and same-sex unions, announced unexpectedly on Friday that he would step down at the end of the year.
He said it was time to move on after a decade as archbishop and his new post as master of Magdelene College at Cambridge University would give him the time "which I have longed for" to think and write about the Church.
"I would hope that my successor has the constitution of an ox and the skin of a rhinoceros," he said.
Williams, 61, a white-bearded and bushy-browed theologian, will leave behind a church split between progressives ready to allow women bishops and bless same-sex unions, and conservatives opposed to such modern reforms.
His resignation also appeared to spell the end for his faltering project to forge more unity in the Anglican Communion, an 80-million strong worldwide federation of 38 national and regional churches that see him as their spiritual leader.
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The noble people of the UK...heck,even the maladroit English..have always been strong freedom loving individuals contemptuous of any secular big government central control.
But the Anglican Church, just as it's estranged yet beloved master the RMC by their very natures invite—socialist encroachment because true faith—separate from the unholy spiritual industrialization practiced by both dogmas—eschews, even violently, Leftist notions.
Williams Quits as Anglican Head, Says Successor Needs"Rhino Skin""to grow a spine"
Fixed it.
If the new prelate needs RINO skin, might we offer Mitt’s?
Or maybe EINO (Episcopal In Name Only) skin or maybe CINO (Christian In Name Only) skin.
The crown might do something radical and appoint a Christian to the post for a change.
I am reminded of the episode of Yes, Prime Minister, called The Bishop’s Gambit.
Sir Humphrey explained that the Church is always seeking to maintain the balance of bishops between those who believe in God and those who do not.
“Rhino skin” and maybe a backbone.
Who knows, maybe his successor will forgo Williams’ “night job” of doubling as a Druid priest . . . just a thought.
Or maybe a genuine and exuberant faith would work!
It's not the making of the RCC, it's the creeping liberalism that drove the conservative members away from the C of E and Episcopal Church. Odd how liberalism drives away The Best.
Williams will go down in history as a poor administrator and a faithless failure.
Lex orandi, lex credendi.
Up until 1910, the English king had to take a coronation oath which specifically renounced Catholicism in rather ugly terms. Did you know that?
The Pope didn't create the Church of England, Henry VIII did. He baptized it in the blood of any Catholic who got in his way.
It has been the lapdog of the British government from its conception. It came into being because Henry VIII wanted a church which would endorse divorce and remarriage. Now the British government wants a church which endorses homosexual perversion and gender feminism. How can a church run by the government, founded to say "yes" to the government, ever be anything but a creature of the zeitgeist as reflected by the government?
... more significantly, in the “Glorious Revolution,” a Catholic or at least Catholic-sympathizing James wanted to allow freedom to worship any church. The British parliament responded with treason, bringing in a foreign army to destroy religious liberty and formally encode religious bigotry.
James made his political mistakes, such as trying to impose his choice on Oxford University, and to make Protestant preachers declare the Catholic offer of indulgence for those reconverting to Catholicism. But nothing of the sort could justify deceiving the Germans into making peace with the Ottomans (to take the French away from James’ side) on the promise that Catholics, once defeated, would retain full rights in England.
... more significantly, in the “Glorious Revolution,” a Catholic or at least Catholic-sympathizing James wanted to allow freedom to worship any church. The British parliament responded with treason, bringing in a foreign army to destroy religious liberty and formally encode religious bigotry.
James made his political mistakes, such as trying to impose his choice on Oxford University, and to make Protestant preachers declare the Catholic offer of indulgence for those reconverting to Catholicism. But nothing of the sort could justify deceiving the Germans into making peace with the Ottomans (to take the French away from James’ side) on the promise that Catholics, once defeated, would retain full rights in England.
He became a member of a Welsh literary order that used druidic symbolism, not a priest in a druid religion ...
That, at least, is his version ...
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