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To: NYer; Coleus; narses; Salvation
Interestingly the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, the Most Revd John Olaiekan, processed into the Church with the bishops to the delight of most Anglican faithful who described it “as good for the universal church.’”
3 posted on 03/15/2005 7:28:44 AM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || Iran Azadi || Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?)
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To: sionnsar

"Interestingly the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, the Most Revd John Olaiekan, processed into the Church with the bishops to the delight of most Anglican faithful who described it “as good for the universal church.’"

Well, the Devil's loose in the world, so we all have to hang together or we will surely hang separately.

Besides, the particulars of the orthodox Anglican/Roman Catholic split are so rooted in a specific moment in history, which has passed, that the primary barrier to closer and closer reconciliation and eventually reunion is really just simple inertia. Obviously in America, faced with what's going on, if one doesn't have the option of finding an orthodox Anglican church where one is, one is better off sitting with the Romans or the Greeks or Russians than hanging out with the Molechite Bishops and their merry band.

Reunification under duress is not the preferred course, but following the Devil over a cliff is worse.

It is to be hoped that the orthodox manage to carve out a nationwide network of Christian Anglicanism which can provide to the needs of the Episcopalians who choose to remain Christian. Once that trauma is past, the differences between orthodox Anglican, Eastern Orthodox and Roman orthodox will perhaps be better understood to be what they are: different flavors of the same fundamental thing.
Eventual co-communion and reunification should be our ultimate goal, and not the political sewing back together of the Christian half of orthodox Anglicanism with the gangrenous tissue of Americo-Canadian "Episcopalianism".

There is a better chance, theologically, that Rome or Constantinople and the Southern Baptist Convention could come to unity than that there be communion with the sodomite heirophants of Molech.

But perhaps I am being too harsh?

Then again, perhaps not.


4 posted on 03/15/2005 10:58:22 AM PST by Vicomte13 (Tibikak ishkwata!)
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