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To: ichabod1
I just got a message from the rector of a church I attend calling the Apostolic Constitution “opportunistic unholy poaching” and “fishing for disgruntled Anglicans.”

Send him this article.

Ask him what the Church should do with people who are "shivering at the gates", to use Newman's phrase.

19 posted on 10/23/2009 11:57:58 AM PDT by marshmallow ("A country which kills its own children has no future" -Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
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To: marshmallow

I know. I find his position arrogant and conceited. This isn’t even about him. He has a happy flock, a good worship space, and a dynamic outreach program. He has one of the most successful parishes in TEC. It is so good that even though I left and became Catholic, I’ve returned, for a time, because I can’t find that spirit in my new church home.

I appreciate him taking a stand, but I think the issues here are so much greater than “unholy poaching” that it makes him seem rather small.


29 posted on 10/23/2009 1:37:43 PM PDT by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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