Posted on 02/18/2007 5:09:43 PM PST by kalee
Wow. Very interesting.
Henry VIII is turning in his grave. [Serves him right.]
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Lots of people including ancestors of mine would be spinning if it were to happen. Personally I don';t think it will.
I was surprised to see this reported today as the Primates meetings are going on in Tanzania. It appears all is not going well for the orthodox. The revisionists appear to be winning. I don't think there will be any chance of a merger after this meeting is over, maybe some bishops, priests, laymen will swim but I don't think it will be a full merger. Rome doesn't want the revisionists, do they?
Sorry to disappoint, I'm not coming. I'm in a Continuing Church.
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This would put the Episcopal Church of the United States in a real trickbag. They would likely be left in the dust, trying to figure out what went wrong with their plan to create a secular, God-denying, earth muffin denomination.
Some testy little details to work out, like what happens to the Anglican liturgy, etc.
I was quite surprised myself. I found a link on a blog and first thought was that it was a joke. It does appear at the Tomes Online site, so I guess someone somewhere thinks it will happen.
Sionnsar - what do you think the chances are this will happen?
What will the Roman Catholic Church do with divorced and remarried couples? And our Anglican priest is married. I must be missing something here...
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Some of us don't give a rip about the "new rulers of the Episcopal church."
The same thing they do with divorced and re-married Catholics--discern whether the original marriage was valid (annulment). It "does" happen in the RC church.
As to what happens to the married Anglican priest--that depends on what HE wants. Quite a few married Anglican priests have converted, and are now Roman Catholic priests (and still married). I think the only caveat is that if his wife dies, he cannot marry again. And, or course, the church has to agree to accept him. But, in any event, the precedents are already in place.
I thought it only happened in the RC church if an annulment was granted? No way am I going through that; I don't believe in it.
Pope Benedict is a uniter.
United we stand, divided we fall.
I don't know enough about all that is involved with the annulment process to give details. All I know is that it DOES happen that people who are divorced and re-married sometimes CAN be legitimately re-married in the Roman Catholic church.
"No way am I going through that; I don't believe in it."
So, annulment is worse than divorce?? I don't get your point.
As am I. The first thing the Continuing churches need to do is to re-unite. The ACC and the APCK are so close there is effectively no difference, and IMHO a reunification should have occurred many years ago. I've heard there was an effort by the UECNA to unite with... the ACC?... but it fell apart over one wayward priest?
This Anglican-Catholic discussion is not a bad thing at all, but I suspect there will be too many difficult issues to overcome. (Likewise, IMHO there should be more Anglican-Orthodox discussions -- after all, I keep hearing directly and indirectly about the Orthodox element in Anglicanism. But it will require lots of patience from the Orthodox...)
I think certain Brit king turn into his grave
Is because some of Churches little tick off that Anglican Church becoming very PC and allow same sex marriages
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