Clint,
You wrote:
"Oh yes. "Come into my parlor," said the spider to the fly."
So you're a fly now? That's very apt considering what flies usually buzz around.
"Come on over to this church that seems bankrupt in more than one way:"
Except that the Church is not bankrupt in any way. Some diocese, because of the stupidity and sinfulness of their priests and bishops are now cash poor. Not my diocese. Not my parish. And certainly not my Church.
Also, you seem to have forgotten that the first diocese to file for bankruptcy in North America for pay off sexual abuse law suits was an Anglican diocese in Canada. Remember that? Hypocrisy is a really sad thing. Try to avoid it.
"Yeah. No wonder you want people to swim the Tiber. You need their money to help pay off your bankrupt church's victims."
Well, since my Church doesn't owe a dime to anyone for anything I can't see how that could be. Do tell. Also, in case you haven't noticed, Anglicans have been leaving their sect for months and months over the most recent and sad oddities they've witnessed. Many of them are coming to the Catholic Church. Don't like it? Too bad. It's going to continue.
"It's really funny. One thought that buggering boys was a sin (not to mention a crime), but I guess it wasn't if your holy church's leaders just swept it under the rug."
No Anglican, or any Anglican defender, should ever lecture anyone about the sinfulness of buggering boys since that is an English public school/Anglican pastime of longstanding note. Also, none of my Church's leaders swept anything under the rug. Want to know how many legal claims there are against my diocese? Zero. Want to know how many there were against my diocese ten years ago? Zero.
"Makes one wonder; if that's not a sin in your holy church anymore, what else is now permitted?"
It is a sinful and it always will be. Anglicanism, however, now allows openly gay bishops. That is a a very open endorsement of homosexuality.
"And about that widow's mite: you were really good and faithful stewards of that, weren't you?"
If it makes you feel better to write that way, go ahead. I know your sect is essentially undefendable so it doesn't really bother me. Those Anglicans who actually want to be Christians will continue to leave you behind and join the Church. You can't stop it. Hurts doesn't it? Feeling impotent? Angry? Upset that anti-Catholicism is not enough to stop the bleeding out of your sect?
Get used to it.
Not to be picky, but what made you assume that Clint was Anglican?
...or even Christian, for that matter, hmm?
Really funny to see these lame defenses of the Catholic church, so very holy it kept sweeping its buggery under the rug until the thing festered so much it went to the courts to rule that the diocese owned parish churches so that it could be forced to sell them off.
Oh by the way, you might consider selling indulgences again. Nice source of income.