Canadian Anglicans Becoming Extinct (due to its liberal agenda)

AgapePress ^ | 02/07/06 | AFA Journal

[Cronos]

Exactly what I was about to say.

[Cronos]

this is good -- the Anglican rite laity and clergy will help the Catholic Church rejuvenate (and yet move back to orthodoxy)

[Cronos]

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.

Note that Papal infallibility is doctrinally noted as being very, very limited -- restricted ONLY to matters of the faith, dogmatic issues and ONLY when spoken ex-cathedra (i.e. on the seat of authority, San Pietro's seat). This means that the Pope is essentially letting himself be used by God as an arbitrator when dogmatic issues come up.

There is no "cult" of Mary -- I remember my parish priest saying "There's no special givt from attending novenas etc. -- but if people find it brings them closer to God, then GOOD!!" Similarly, I find myself under no obligation to go to the excesses -- I accord Mother Mary the respect due to her as Theotokos (the Mother of God) and the Church let's me -- the Catholic Church at the lowest, most simplistic level asks me to believe in the Nicene creed: do you follow this?

[Cronos]

We middle-aged former ECUSAers brought a few teenagers with us

Again, I repeat: WELCOME HOME!!! and Thank you! You have undoubtedly enriched the Catholic Church with your presence and enthusiasm. Thank you

[Clemenza]

Yeah, folk masses really worked, didn't they?

[AnAmericanMother]

We LOVE our church! (Choir practice rocked last night - our choirmaster is great, he believes in Bringing Back the Classics: lots of chant, lots of Renaissance polyphony. Last night we rehearsed Viadana's "Exultate Justi" (at a LITTLE slower tempo!) and Zingarelli's "Go Not Far from Me". Now THAT is music!)

Talk about coming home -- we just wish we'd made the move sooner. I've said several times that we were miserable in ECUSA, mourning beside a dead body, when all the while the Church was alive and joyous and waiting for us just around the corner . . .

[frogjerk]

>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. I agree. I'm still a Catholic (for now) and I am in this group. In my case it is as if the church acknowledges that they have a problem connecting with youth but they refuse to modernize (not theologically, just presentation).

I totally disagree. It is the parents that are the first teachers of the faith to their children as the Rite of Baptism so rightly declares. Most parents don't care about educating their children in the faith and pawn it off to someone else.

[frogjerk]

Don't know where you are, but our Catholic parish is packed to the rafters with babies, young children, teenagers, and young parents enthusiastically presenting the parish with more.

Glory to God!

[Campion]

Re your #33: excellent post, and excellent point.