[jecIIny]

It is widely agreed on FR that ECUSA is a heretical body. With this in mind there seems to be a consensus that those in ECUSA should leave and seek spritual succor elsewhere. For those of the non-evangelical tradition the two logical places to go are either the Roman Catholic Church or Orthodoxy. This essay presents an argument for Orthodoxy.

[FormerLib]

A good argument could be made either way.

There isn't an argument that can be made for staying put, however.

[Kolokotronis]

You may want to consider pinging your list, my friend. This is an interesting article worth the read. Just tonight at the Presanctified Liturgy there were three or four former Episcopalians/Canadian Anglicans in attendence.

[ArrogantBustard]

Well, now! I thought you might find this interesting ... The author comes to a slightly different conclusion than you did.

[AnAmericanMother]

I respect his opinion, some people are more comfortable swimming the Bosporus rather than the Tiber, but he sets up a straw man at the very beginning.

There are loony Catholic parishes and they seem to get all the press, but they are the exception rather than the rule. Our parish is profoundly orthodox (little 'o').

I'm sure if I hunted around I could find some goofy Orthodox congregations . . . but I wouldn't judge the entire church by them . . .

[Conservative til I die]

I would think Catholicism makes more sense for a converting Anglican. Putting my bias toward my own faith aside, culturally and ritually, Anglicans share more in common with Western Catholicism. Although I guess in a way I'm using one of my biggest beefs against Orthodoxy (ethno-centrism) to make my case *for* Catholicism.

[Dumb_Ox]

It seems to me, and many others, that Rome is experiencing a re-discovery of the Protestant Reformation with people like Archbishop Weakland of Milwaukee, Anna Quindlen, Rosemary Radford-Reuther and Richard McBrien leading the charge much like a new vision5 of Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, and Cranmer!

These folks aren't exactly on the cutting edge. They'll be dead or senile in two or three decades, tops. Is he seriously invoking Newsweek's Anna Quindlen as a Catholic thinker? That is really funny.

Wish him the best, though.

[Cheverus]

Good article, well thought out. I work with a Conservative Episcopalian (oxymoron?) that I would bet dollars to donuts would become a Catholic if we still used the 1962 Missal or if there were a Universal indult.

I think this is valuable article to Catholics as a commentary on how an outsider views Liturgical innovation.

Thank God for Benedict XVI

One question arises though: What became of his compatriot Cannon Kimmet?

[Bohemund]

Though I'd love to see my Anglican brothers and sisters swim the Tiber, I would rather see them become Orthodox than stay in ECUSA.