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To: Cronos

Oh’ thanks. Sounds Catholic. (A guy a dated was Episcopal. He referred to himself as “J.V. Catholic”.)


21 posted on 09/07/2011 5:17:08 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("I know that God's tomorrow will be better than today!" A. H. Ackley)
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To: MayflowerMadam
JV probably stood for Junior Version ;-P

But seriously, the Church of England as you know, started off as a compromise -- to keep both those leaning towards Catholicism and those leaning towards Calvinism from ripping each other's throats out, Queen Bess came up with a compromise where the CoE was divided into High Church and Low Church

High Church was basically Catholic in theology, in worship and in doctrine, while Low Church was basically Calvinistic (but not Presbyterian -- they still had to have curates and vicars). They were united by the person of the Monarch (just as Scotland and England were united in 1707)

Now, High Church Anglicanism in England developed into Anglo-Catholicism and High Anglicanism. Low Church Anglicanism basically died out due to apathy recently.

But sticking to the US. In the US, the tendency was mostly low Church, but there were High Church Anglicans (like George Washington for much of his life).

They have the same terms, etc. that Catholics use, but since the 1930 Lambeth conference the ECUSA has been heading in the wrong direction. This pace accelerated in the 1960s and 70s and it went past the point of no return in the 90s.

They may use the same terminology but JV Catholics are not Catholic in their beliefs -- especially now when many of the High Church Anglicans are becoming Catholic and the remaining ECUSA Anglicans in the US are really just a gay bunch.

24 posted on 09/07/2011 5:34:28 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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