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To: sionnsar
“We do not ask you, as Rome does, to ’submit’ we only ask, ‘Do you hold the same Catholic faith we have inherited from the Fathers?’ If you do this, we are brothers.”

Even so, the impediments are the same. The one that stands out especially in my mind is that of women "priests." Do the Orthodox say that women can receive Orders? What about the other Mysteries... are they valid? Are the Thirty-Nine Articles compatible with the Orthodox Faith?

Without those issues answered, I find it difficult to believe that any more than a small few slivers of the Anglican Church could ever come into communion with the Orthodox. Maybe I'm wrong (since I say all of this as an outsider), but I am certainly curious.

11 posted on 11/17/2006 8:15:36 PM PST by GCC Catholic
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To: GCC Catholic

You wrote: "Without those issues answered, I find it difficult to believe that any more than a small few slivers of the Anglican Church could ever come into communion with the Orthodox. Maybe I'm wrong (since I say all of this as an outsider), but I am certainly curious."

No, you're very right.


12 posted on 11/18/2006 8:08:26 AM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: GCC Catholic

The Thirty Nine Articles are not embraced by all Anglicans. They were a bit of a compromise and both Anglo-Catholics and Reformed Anglicans have some dissatisfaction with them. It seems probable that to many Anglicans they would not present an insurmountable obstacle to Communion with the East.


13 posted on 11/18/2006 9:42:52 AM PST by Huber ("Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of classes - our ancestors." - G K Chesterton)
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