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To: Jan_Sobieski
The Anglican Church is not the Roman Catholic Church. While their worship style is close to the Tridentine Mass and other pre-Vatican II Catholic worship, Catholic teaching holds that the episcopal or apostolic succession was broken under Thomas Cranmer and the adoption of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, which is Calvinism light. I believe that the invalidity of Anglican sacraments was determined in a Vatican study around 1890. From a Catholic standpoint, Anglicanism, unlike Eastern Orthodoxy but like Lutheran, Baptistic, and Calvinist churches, is heretical, irrespective of similarities of High Church or Anglo-Catholic worship.

Beth Moore has not crossed the Tiber.

8 posted on 01/21/2022 7:27:52 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.
Catholic teaching holds that the episcopal or apostolic succession was broken under Thomas Cranmer and the adoption of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, which is Calvinism light.

Pardon my pedantry, but ...

It was under Matthew Parker, not Thomas Cranmer. The issue was not the Thirty-Nine Articles (which have problems galore, but still weren't the issue), the issue was Rome's view that the ordination rite enacted in the 1662 (I think ...) BCP was invalid.

Some Anglo-Catholic clerics have tended to concede that Rome had a point and had themselves conditionally re-ordained by Old Catholic bishops (who had valid orders until they started ordaining women to the episcopacy).

9 posted on 01/21/2022 7:34:23 AM PST by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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