Posted on 11/10/2005 5:53:53 AM PST by NYer
How the devil can twist the meaning of words. It is amazing at times.
Gay bishop? Illogical. Like discussing a square circle or an audible color. No need to read further.
Funny, I've never seen it written that way in any Old Testament I've ever read. He must have a Deluxe Homosexual Translation of the Bible.
I'm not surprised. The Episcopal Church is the closest to being Catholic that they can find and still be able to do the things they want to do, ie, divorce and remarry, seemingly without guilt.
I don't think that's true is it? The prevailing version of Anglicanism in the US has been what used to be known as the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. It used to be like 2% of the population and 40% of the money was in the Episcopal church and that's why there are so many dead presidents in the club.
I taught the first year of the three year confirmation prep class in New Jersey. The kids started in 5th Grade, and were confirmed in 8th grade; too young, in my opinion, but that's what it was. I remember some of the kids complaining that it took so long and they had to go to so many classes. I asked them why they would want to be confirmed in a religion they know nothing about. I told them it was because the Church wanted them to KNOW about what the Church teaches before they made the decision to be confirmed in it, and to understand exactly WHY the Church teaches what she does.
The piskies are part of the Anglican Communion. The other group has been authorized as another branch of anglicanizm to try to avoid losing those that have left the piskies entirely. They have their own bishops, from Africa, I think, and they are disconnected from the piskies, or piscopos if you will.
I think it is admirable, but for me, if I really wanted to be Catholic, it was time to become a Real Catholic.
Lord Knows there must be plenty for sale in this day and age. Good luck to you. It saves them from becoming taverns, bathhouses, or cathouses, that's for sure.
One thing I'm finding, OTOH, is that annulments are easier to get than ever in the RC. But annulments aren't so great because they make b@stards out of the children cuz they say the marriage never was.
I still have a grave problem with the RC over marriage. It is so heartbreaking what they do to people who want to re-marry.
That's completely untrue. Canon law has always recognized children of a putative marriage entered into in good faith as legitimate. In the current (1983) CIC, the concepts of "legitimacy" and "illegitimacy" don't even exist.
Sort of makes you wonder whether some of the other churches DON'T want you to know what they teach and why they do before you join.
I was confirmed piskie in 6th grade I think with a spring semester of classes - maybe not even that maybe it was just Lent. Because I remember the weather was just getting really nice when I was confirmed. It's about the same now.
The joke is :
Q: Why can Episcopalians play chess?
A: because they can't tell a bishop from a queen.
Thank you for clearing that up for me. I read a question from a woman very upset about that and afraid to get one on the Catholic Community Forum a while back.
I suppose they can also go to a liberal Catholic church and take communion anyway too, but I don't think that's the kind of ideal we're going for in this discussion.
This degenerate certainly is aware of the proper protocols and traditions, he would be offended if he was referred to as Reverend Robinson, rather than Bishop.
He may not be encouraging Catholics to leave the Church, but he is certainly driving a lot of Anglicans INTO the Catholic Church.
The Anglicans in Nigeria are the real deal. I forsee a breakup with England in the future.
Wow, that lack of caring for the poor, widows & orphans in Sodom is not in the Bible that I read. Maybe if I bought the GIV (Gay International Version) instead of reading the NIV, I might find it.
I meant to comment on this but couldn't find the post.
The Episcopal Church has been the church of many presidents.
The Anglican Catholic Church is a recent breakaway form ECUSA and has not been the church of any president.
If you are saying that those Presidents attended an Anglican based church that was catholic, small c not Roman Catholic, in it's belief you would be correct, but that church was the Old ECUSA.
See my posts 48 and 52. You don't have it quite right on who is who inside or outside the Anglican Communion.
Forgive me, but what is that a picture of?
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