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Canadian Anglicans Becoming Extinct (due to its liberal agenda)
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Posted on 02/09/2006 9:20:29 AM PST by Heartofsong83
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That is accelerating even more since 2001 - despite the fact that overall church attendance in Canada has spiked upward since then.
There is a good reason why I recently left that church.
To: Heartofsong83; fanfan; GMMAC; little jeremiah; NYer
RE: How the Anglican Church of Canada is rapidly losing members.
"Almost as if to confirm McKerracher's impression, Canadian Archbishop Andrew Hutchison told The Church of England Newspaper that although the report was a "wake-up call," he hoped a new emphasis on social justice and ecumenical cooperation would stem the decline."
I thought you all might be interested in this.
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posted on
02/09/2006 9:25:36 AM PST
by
Alexander Rubin
(Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
To: Heartofsong83
There is a good reason why I recently left that church.ROBINSON: "Does this collar make me look fat?...BTW, did you say something?"
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posted on
02/09/2006 9:25:37 AM PST
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM: The perpetual insulting of common sense.)
To: Heartofsong83
They are called worship services, Bishop, not social justice and ecumenical cooperation services. People go to church to worship God, not to participate in the latest liberation theology activities. What a maroon.
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posted on
02/09/2006 9:25:45 AM PST
by
p. henry
To: Heartofsong83
Is there an alternative conservative anglican-communion church springing up in Canada akin to how the American Anglican churches are springing up to replace the former Episcopal churches?
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posted on
02/09/2006 9:26:07 AM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: Heartofsong83
The same thing is going to happen to American Catholic Churches. However it will not be due to conservative-liberal underpinnings. It will be due to the fact that the church has done little to engage children and young adults. I look at my church on Sunday and it is filled with gray hair. Over the next twenty - third years they will die and there will be very few left in the pews. It is a shame and it may be two late to engage the age group.
To: p. henry
Where are they going? Back into the Catholic fold, from where they departed, maybe?
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posted on
02/09/2006 9:27:31 AM PST
by
tbird5
To: Investment Biker
My catholic church is packed with young people and babies. The catholic schools here in Kentucky are packed.
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posted on
02/09/2006 9:29:26 AM PST
by
tbird5
To: tbird5
Increasingly that is the same in Canada, in many communities at least. Not sure about the largest cities.
To: tbird5
To: Heartofsong83
"There is a good reason why I recently left that church." This is also the reason the wife and I left the ELCA last year for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Both organizations are headed by liberal/socialists who's agenda is socially oriented, instead of a committment to the religious health of their members.
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posted on
02/09/2006 9:31:35 AM PST
by
bcsco
("He who is wedded to the spirit of the age is soon a widower" - Anonymous)
To: tbird5
I am going to assume you are in northern Kentucky and have a tradition of schools that are associated with the church. This is a good draw for the church though many in Cincinnati would like to see the church get out of the school business. The local parish with a school does well in demographics. The adjoining parishes without a school are all filled with gray and few children in attendance.
To: Investment Biker
The same thing is going to happen to American Catholic Churches. However it will not be due to conservative-liberal underpinnings. It will be due to the fact that the church has done little to engage children and young adults. I look at my church on Sunday and it is filled with gray hair. Funny, my Catholic church is full of families with lots of little kids.
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posted on
02/09/2006 9:42:10 AM PST
by
Campion
("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
To: sionnsar
Thought you and your Anglican ping list might be interested in this, buddy. ;)
Check out the last line.
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posted on
02/09/2006 9:44:44 AM PST
by
Alexander Rubin
(Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
To: Heartofsong83
Meanwhile, Anglican & Episcopalian converts to the RC camp are proceeding apace. The new Anglican rite parishes in the US (Our Lady of Atonement in San Antonio was the founding parish, courtesy of JP II) are busting at the seams, not just with converts from all the C of E offshoots & other ex-protestants of various provenance, but with cradle Catholics fed up with the namby-pamby,don't-want-to-offend-anyone moral relativist priests in their own parishes, who also treasure the ang. rite's beautifully reverential services, not to mention their proudly pro-Vatican, vocally pro-life, and refreshingly old-school theological outlook.They are so retro, they are positively cutting-edge to all of us post Vatican II babies. And devout pre-V2 folks really feel at home there as well. Our Lady of A in S.A. haven't even finished putting on the final touches to the most recent addition to their church but judging from the service I attended a couple of weeks ago, it looks like they're going to have to call back the contractors to tack on another extension. It's amazing!
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posted on
02/09/2006 9:44:58 AM PST
by
leilani
To: Heartofsong83
Will the last person in the Anglican/
Episcopalian Church turn off the lights. Or maybe blow out only the candles.
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posted on
02/09/2006 9:49:38 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
To: Alexander Rubin; GMMAC; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; ...
Canada Ping!
Please FReepmail me to get on or off this Canada ping list.
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posted on
02/09/2006 9:55:29 AM PST
by
fanfan
To: MeanWestTexan
"Is there an alternative conservative anglican-communion church springing up in Canada akin to how the American Anglican churches are springing up to replace the former Episcopal churches?"
Yes see the link.
http://www.acahome.org/tac/
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posted on
02/09/2006 11:35:57 AM PST
by
jecIIny
(You faithful, let us pray for the Catechumens! Lord Have Mercy)
To: leilani
The Anglican/Roman shift goes both ways. I am an Anglican, but I really can't see myself joining the Roman church. I am not willing to accept that the Pope is infallible, and I am not interested in the "Cult" of Mary.
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posted on
02/09/2006 11:42:08 AM PST
by
kellynch
(I am excessively diverted. ~~Jane Austen)
To: kellynch
Absolutely, do whatever your heart requires you to do. Roman Catholicism is definitely not for everyone, & most especially not for those who're too intellectually lazy to investigate the accuracy of trite misconceptions about papal "infallibility" and shopworn myths regarding "cults" of Mary and the like. ;)
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posted on
02/09/2006 12:08:14 PM PST
by
leilani
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