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To: sionnsar
Well, that tells me there is something at the core of the Anglican church that grew very rotten over many decades.

Why do Anglicans and Catholics support a church structure that has become corrupt? Are not Christians to be loyal to Christ and not some bureaucratic institution that once claimed to follow Him?
3 posted on 04/18/2006 12:10:52 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: ConservativeMind
Why do Anglicans and Catholics support a church structure that has become corrupt?

Why are some Christians such sloppy thinkers that they think there's any comparison between the two situations?

4 posted on 04/18/2006 12:19:18 PM PDT by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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To: ConservativeMind

Well, I let the Anglicans defend themselves. However many Anglicans are trying to be Loyal to Christ by being loyal to the Church as they understand it and by taking appropriate measures in my view.
As to to the Catholic Church. I am not sure by what you mean by corruption. We have gone through a trying time with the Abuse scandels but reform has and is being had. The Church is a mystery. There is the mystery of what our current Pope has called a unholy holiness. History has shown us from the time that God has used man to spread his word that its been a messy affair. How many times have the very heros of our faith failed him but yet God still kept his promises to his people. He did so for the Jews and I believe he does so for the RCC.


5 posted on 04/18/2006 12:22:34 PM PDT by catholicfreeper
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To: ConservativeMind
Why do Anglicans and Catholics support a church structure that has become corrupt?

Hey, don't lump is catholics in with the pagan ECUSA. My Roman Catholic parish is wonderful, the priest is a gem and our bishop is young, healthy, not gay and is very conservative. Our "church structure" better educates more inner city kids than any charter or public school or sectarian private school. Our catholic outreach services are models of perfection. Catholic social justice keeps the church honest.

Most protestants aren't aware of the extensive social welfare network supported by hte Roman catholic "church structure".

As a former Anglican - I can tell you that catholics ante-up and support their parishes, financially, much more than any conservative or liberal protestant denomination. So please so lump that catholics in with the ECUSA. It's a crime.

6 posted on 04/18/2006 12:33:54 PM PDT by x_plus_one (Wensleydale is best)
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Whoa! Talk about yoked with an unbeliever! You can't know much about the Catholics, or you wouldn't mention them in the same breath as those heretic Anglicans . . .

. . . speaking as a FORMER ECUSA member and CURRENT Catholic of course. There's about as big a difference as there can be, otherwise we wouldn't have bothered to swim the Tiber . . .

7 posted on 04/19/2006 7:16:37 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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