Posted on 09/03/2021 10:01:19 PM PDT by Cronos
An Anglican bishop opposed to the ordination of women has resigned to join the Roman Catholic church.
Jonathan Goodall, the bishop of Ebbsfleet for the past eight years, said he had reached his decision “after a long period of prayer, which has been among the most testing periods of my life”. .. His resignation was announced by Lambeth Palace on Friday. Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, said: “I am deeply grateful to Bishop Jonathan for his ministry and many years of faithful service.”
In a statement, Goodall said: “I have arrived at the decision to step down as Bishop of Ebbsfleet, in order to be received into full communion with the Roman Catholic church, only after a long period of prayer, which has been among the most testing periods of my life.
Advertisement “Life in the communion of the Church of England has shaped and nourished my discipleship as a Catholic Christian for many decades … I shall always treasure this and be thankful for it.
“I trust you all to believe that I have made my decision as a way of saying yes to God’s present call and invitation, and not of saying no to what I have known and experienced in the Church of England, to which I owe such a deep debt.”
A spokesperson for the Catholic church in England and Wales said: “Bishop Jonathan Goodall is warmly welcome in his desire to enter into full communion with the Catholic church, which looks forward to his full participation in the life of the church.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
He’s in for a surprise
does he go Orthodox next when the Roman Catholic Church goes full woke?
No, he has been studying the Biblical books and praying for decades on this. That’s why He knows that the Catholic church is the inauguration of the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus left us a community, a Church, the Catholic church. Through this community, this church, the new testament gospels and letters and apocalyptic vision were birthed. Through this kingdom we have the canon of the Bible collected.
There is no possibility of it going full woke.
The church has skirted far more dangerous philosophies in the past.
This is the thrilling romance of Catholicism. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as the church.
It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. It was the equilibrium of a man behind madly rushing horses, seeming to stoop this way and to sway that, yet in every attitude having the grace of statuary and the accuracy of arithmetic. The Church in its early days went fierce and fast with any warhorse; yet it is utterly unhistoric to say that she merely went mad along one idea, like a vulgar fanaticism
She swerved to left and right, so exactly as to avoid enormous obstacles. She left on one hand the huge bulk of Arianism, buttressed by all the worldly powers to make Christianity too worldly. The next instant she was swerving to avoid an orientalism, which would have made it too unworldly.
The Church never took the tame course. It would have been easier to have accepted the earthly power of the Arians. It would have been easy, in the Calvinistic seventeenth century, to fall into the bottomless pit of predestination.
It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one’s own. It is always easy to be a modernist; as it is easy to be a snob. To have fallen into any of those open traps of error and exaggeration which fashion after fashion and sect after sect set along the historic path of Christendom—that would indeed have been simple. It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands. To have fallen into any one of the fads from Gnosticism to Christian Science would indeed have been obvious and tame. But to have avoided them all has been one whirling adventure; and in my vision the heavenly chariot flies thundering through the ages, the dull heresies sprawling and prostrate, the wild truth reeling but erect in the One Holy Bride of Christ, carried along by His grace.
RCC interest ping
Who wrote that - can you cite the source? Thanks.
G. K. Chesterton. Awesome!
It is polite give credit when one quotes someone else’s words...
GK Chesterton from Orthodoxy
interesting
The article doesn’t mention a wife or children.
His wife’s name is Sarah and his has two children, according to Wikipedia. But why is that important?
Seriously?
Boy, did he pick the wrong time to find conservatism in the Catholic Church!
He will never be a bishop, but he might be ordained a priest if that's what the relevant authorities, and he, want. There are a number of married priests already who are converts.
A married church of England bishop has resigned from his position in order to join the Roman Catholic Church after what he said was “among the most testing periods of my life.”...and, from wikipedia - "Goodall is married to Sarah.[6] They have two children; Thomas (born 1989) and Anna-Mary (born 1994).[
I really liked that description from Chesterton. And, on studying the scripture and learning more about history, I see that he was soooo correct.
note that married men can become priests in 22 of the 23 rites of the Church.
Amen.
One angle at which one stands, an infinity at which one must fall.
He was great and is great.
Well, I’m Lutheran, so...
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