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To: Vanders9
However, all this Catholic triumphalism is NOT helping matters.

Ya don't think so? Turn up the Gregorian on the boom box, release 2 million cfm of incense, and start speaking Latin. Maybe you can get into the spirit of it. This week, and this week only, I can get you a deal on 2 millions years off your time in Purgatory or a low, low 13 shillings sixpence. (Actually H8 did not end this practice in England, just wanted a bigger cut for the Crown)

The C of E will no doubt continue. We are entering a long awkward period during which some Anglican Bishops will lead their people toward Catholicism and re-establish the apostolic succession in Britain, and more Bishops (open gays and lesbians among them) will not.

The Church of England is the "official" religion of the UK. Eventually it will be disestablished and the UK will have Episcopalians and Catholics, just as we do.

And on an ecumenical note, may I add the sentiments of a Catholic Irishman of my acquaintance? "No bloody papist will bless this hunt's hounds!"

142 posted on 01/31/2011 7:39:16 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (America might survive Obama. It cannot survive those who vote for him)
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To: Kenny Bunk
No I don't think so. This is an old, old argument and I have no wish to see it reignited, not while the secularists laugh and the muslims wait in the wings. The Church (that is the Church universal) cannot afford this kind of squabbling right now. Certainly not in Britain.

As to the established Church of England, well I may be English but I'm also a good Baptist, and a Baptist by conviction at that. I don't think we should have a State religion. I don't think any country should. The CofE will continue beyond this. The anglo-catholic wing is a relatively small and uninfluential part and they are quite ineffective at spreading the gospel anyway. The Catholics can have them for all the good it will do. They can fool themselves with "apostolic successions" too for all I care.

144 posted on 01/31/2011 7:54:47 AM PST by Vanders9
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