[Honorary Serb]

"The Church of England, catholic and reformed, has before acted prophetically for the wider church: The vernacular liturgy, married clergy, have all been pioneered by our church....

Yeah, right! What about the Orthodox Church?

These deluded revisionists need to lose their "enthusiast" nonsense about being "prophetic" and "pioneering", and get back to orthodox catholic bedrock truth!!!!

[BelegStrongbow]

I sympathize. Neither of the cases cited is in fact an innovation by the English church but were restorations of conditions prior to late Medieval Roman decisions. That is, Innocent (III?) declared that the Western clergy must in all cases be celibate. That was not the universal case before his day. As for the vernacular, well, Latin WAS the vernacular when the Mass was developed.

In Christ,
Deacon Paul+