Oy, Hänsli, du hirnlose Sabbelheini:
Go over there, like a good boy, and bother them for awhile, k?
Ping!
I don’t see how conservative, orthodox Anglicans are going to want to join the Roman Catholic Church. It is preposterous. This was more an invitation to Anglo Catholics ,who operate in the Episcopal church almost identically to Roman Catholics, to stop pretending to be Protestants and come into the fold.
This Kung character is trouble. I read some of his material while in the process of converting to the church.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
It’s being polite to Hans Kung to call him a dissident. A better term would be heretic. He is still trying to peddle his garbage, but there are fewer and fewer takers.
As it happens, I grew up Episcopal, and had the good fortune to go to a Church School where the Headmaster was High Anglican and the chapel was indistinguishable from a Catholic chapel. I haven’t been back in many years, but I’m afraid things changed. They brought in women priests, gave away the beautiful, life-sized Crucifix that had been behind the altar, and even organized a pro-abortion march on Washington which brought letters of protest from some of us alumni to the school newspaper.
But it was a wonderful education. Even the Sacrament of Confession—technically not a Sacrament in the Anglican Church, but permitted (though not encouraged) by the Book of Common Prayer, where it is mentioned in two places: before the service of the Lord’s Supper, and before the rites for the dying.
I subsequently became Catholic, not so much because I thought that Anglican teaching was false, but because it did not seem to me to represent the Universal Church, and because it was so clearly a niche in a Church that also included a lot of strange doings.
In fact, when I assisted at services with the Cowley Fathers in Cambridge, they spoke of the service as “the Mass,” and they genuflected to the Sacrament. But they had to remove the Sacrament from the sacristy and hide it when their bishop visited their chapel from Boston, because he refused to genuflect. Rather than argue with him, they just hid it away.
Oy, Hänsli, du hirnlose Sabbelheini:
Go over there, like a good boy, and bother them for awhile, k?
Hans Kung and Joseph Ratzinger were both theology professors at the University of Tübingen circa 1960-68. In response to the tumult of the 1960’s, Kung moved to the liberal side and Ratzinger became more conservative.
Maybe.
