Once the Spirit has left the building, there is nothing left to do but call the realtors.
I agree. Liberal Anglicans would be better off being Catholic.
The declaration at Lambeth is contentless. They never answered the question: WHAT moral considerations could make continence immoral?
Ultimately, of course, married couples were being told: Do the right thing, unless you find it difficult or unpleasant.
Tolkien best summarized Anglicanism: “a pathetic and shadowy medley of half-remembered traditions and mutilated beliefs.”
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“So, if openness to life is not required in marriage (which the acceptance of contraception would seem to indicate), then why are same-sex couples in the ECUSA mandated to practice sexual abstinence? And if it is required, then why are contraception and homosexual relationships now endorsed?”
Excellent point. But sin is incompatible with true logic and reasoning.
If Roman Catholicism is being presented as "God's true church" and superior to any other denomination of Christianity based on this one area, then shouldn't this church actually demonstrate that moral superiority better? Without even dwelling on the abysmal child sexual abuses of the past BY clergy and the cover-ups, stonewalling and perjury by the hierarchy, explain how the "contraception" rules are intrinsically different when the "rhythm method" and "natural family planning" are recommended for married couples to avoid conception? The result is basically the same whether a couple uses NFP or a condom. All the Catholic Church is doing is piously asserting "their" way is the only way God's church should act in the area of what a husband and wife do in the planning of their families between themselves and God. It sounds more than a little hypocritical to me.
I sincerely HOPE nobody decides to join the Catholic Church solely on the basis of this issue.