[lightman]

I believe that someone has confused Cranmer with Cromwell or Karlstadt.

Cranmer sought to preserve the finest aspects of the Western Rite, while Cromell and Karstadt wer hell bent on destroying it in their misplaced zeal of "purifying" the church. Cromell worked his evil in England while Karstadt did his worst in Germany.

[RobbyS]

Well, I was talking about Craner's theology, which manifested itself in a concerted effort to remove all stone altars from the churches and replacing them with wooden tables. The point was that the Eucharist should be thought of as a meal, not a sacrifice. Many liberal Catholic priests talk this way, talk which is now being contradicted at the synod of bishops.