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To: fabrizio

I am sorry to see that Anglicans are running rather than fighting. Once upon a time they would have been willing to do something about the heretics other than run back to the Mother Church. What a sad terminal, disease this liberalism is.


14 posted on 01/30/2011 2:51:01 PM PST by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: Steamburg

Mat 10:14 And if any one will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town.


25 posted on 01/30/2011 3:14:31 PM PST by donna (Imagine...women who honor men enough not to tempt them.)
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To: Steamburg
We fought as long as we could.

Part of the problem is that the national church is controlled by iron-fisted radicals who took over while individuals in local churches weren't paying attention. They changed the rules so that they control the seminaries and the church property.

The radicals tried the same thing in the Catholic Church, but were defeated (at least so it appears at the moment) by the strong central organization and the Church's principled stand against all the foolishness proposed by the Anglicans (homosexuals and women's ordination are only the obvious issues. There are many more, including the divinity of Christ, the existence of sin, the Trinity, etc.)

The other part of the problem is the absence in the Episcopal/Anglican church of any kind of final ecclesiastical authority on faith and morals. You can believe pretty much whatever you want to believe, like the husband and wife Episcopal priests who were Wiccan priest and priestess on the side, or the idiot vicar who converted to Islam and didn't think that was inconsistent with her being an Episcopal priest (I think her jurisdictional bishop slapped her down, but only after the local bishop said he thought it was just fine and dandy.)

At some point you simply can't fight any more. For those of us who were "high" Episcopalians and had been telling ourselves all along that we were Catholics, just separated from Rome, there was one obvious refuge.

It has turned out to be a much better home than we expected or deserved.

32 posted on 01/30/2011 4:16:22 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: Steamburg

They have been fighting for decades; the fight is over.


57 posted on 01/30/2011 5:02:15 PM PST by kearnyirish2
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