[ishmac]

Would that Episcopal leaders showed the same zeal for their faith that they do for their property. If the present decline continues, all that will remain of a once strong church will be empty buildings, kept going by the finances, though not the faith, of the fathers.

But the material collapse will eventually follow the moral debacle. The congregations of these places will continue to dwindle until they are forced to sell the buildings. The buildings will become "community centers" as they have in Europe and the people who have run them into the ground will live off the capital until they die.

As a cradle Episcopalian and now Catholic convert, I came to see that the Episcopal church did not have the "antibodies" to fight off the modernism that has engulfed it. Although the Catholic Church has been disrupted by modernism, it has the "antibodies" to fight it off and eventually prosper.

[ichabod1]

The buildings will become "community centers"

Or mosques.

Although the Catholic Church has been disrupted by modernism, it has the "antibodies" to fight it off and eventually prosper.

I consider myself an antibody, and eventually became convinced that the ECUSA was terminal. The RCC has a tough fight on her hands, but I think my efforts have the best chance of bearing fruit there. I'm in an Anglican Use Parish, by the way.

Oh, and I'm not at all proud of what the EC has come to. I blame myself. Now I'm just trying to do what I can to repair the damage.