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To: bobjam

Dear bobjam,

"If the goal is complete unification between traditionalist Anglicans and Rome,..."

The goal, of course, must be complete unification. However, that doesn't mean the same thing as absorption. Should there be re-union between the Catholic Church and Orthodoxy, one will not become the other, but rather, they will come back into communion with each other.

That being said, I don't think that Pope Benedict would accept communion with any group that permitted married bishops.


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7 posted on 02/15/2006 5:44:22 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest

While Orthodoxy allows married men to become priests, it draws its bishops from the monasteries. It would be very difficult for Anglicanism to adopt that approach as there are very few monasteries from which to draw leaders. And therein lies the inherint problem: Catholicism and Orthodoxy are based on a monastic system while Anglicanism and the rest of Protestantism are based on a congregational system. Anglican bishops are married because they are drawn from congregational leadership. Catholic and Orthodox bishops are not married because they are drawn from a monastic order.


9 posted on 02/15/2006 6:09:50 AM PST by bobjam
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