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Anglicans coming home to Rome
Looks like the fruits borne by ol' King Henry VIII have gotten rotten enough to send the traditional Anglicans packing and swimming the Tiber River to seek refuge from the liberal takeover of the Episcopal Church that has caused it to implode. Welcome back home, brothers and sisters! There had been talk of this happening, but certainly not so soon. Praise be to Pope Benedict XVI for "the boldest move since the Reformation": http://www.csmonitor.com/20... The Archbold Gang at the Creative Minority Report should be commended for pulling all the news and comments about this historic event together: http://www.creativeminority... It appears that only 5,000 of the 400,000 members of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) reside in the United States, but I'm betting there will be more jumping off the sinking ship to join the exodus, perhaps even the group of local Anglicans headed by Fresno-based Bishop John-David Schofield, whose split from the Episcopal Church to join a more traditional communion in the Southern Cone region created a ruckus here in recent years. That's not to say that the Catholic Church doesn't have its crazy lefties, but at least it doesn't have a hierarchy that bends like a reed in the wind to the whims of its flock who would rather change the church than to have it change them like Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, let happen in the Anglican Communion. It'll be interesting how the liberal CINOs (Catholics in name only) like Nancy Pelosi will receive the Catholic Church's new family members. Chances are they will regard them as homophobes and misogynists: http://www.creativeminority... Well, if this turns out to be the liberal Catholics' worst nightmare, no one is keeping them from defecting. The Episcopalians who share their rebellious nature certainly would greet them with wide-open arms. I just wish they'd do so sooner so that our undocumented president can stop picking Catholic dissidents to fill key posts in his administration as if trying to put lipstick on a pig. The latest such nominee, to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, is a nutty professor from the Jesuit Georgetown U. named Chai Feldblum, a lesbian activist who has no problem with polygamy or doing away with conscience protections: http://www.creativeminority...
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posted by
Ray_Harwick
on Oct 20, 2009 at 05:04 PM
The Church certainly needs to do some recruiting what with the drain on their funding like this: Delaware: The Catholic Archdiocese of Wilmington declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy after petitioning the court in vain for an "equitable settlement" for 142 victims of molestation by priests. posted by
paxchristi3
on Oct 20, 2009 at 06:47 PM
Amen to that, Ray. Things can only look up for the Catholic Church now that it is banning homosexuals who were a major cause of the child sex abuse scandal from the priesthood. The newcomers will gladly help make up the payouts just so some sanity and holiness can be restored to their church: http://vivificat1.blogspot.... posted by
djembe
on Oct 20, 2009 at 07:15 PM
Things can only look up for the Catholic Church now that it is banning homosexuals who were a major cause of the child sex abuse scandal from the priesthood. Ha! There goes 75% of your priest recruits. posted by
paxchristi3
on Oct 20, 2009 at 08:21 PM
No sweat, DJ. The seminaries are packed with orthodox seminarians ready to replace the graybeard holdovers from the Summer of Love. The fruits of John Paul the Great are ripe for the harvest. The news gets even better with the current pope naming two militant orthodox bishops to a panel that will decide who gets to be bishops: http://www.catholicculture.... That can only entice more traditionalists to join the fold. posted by
paxchristi3
on Oct 20, 2009 at 09:29 PM
A good friend of mine, Catholic blogger Dave Hartline, wrote a commentary about this development that includes this zinger: In the heyday of 1960s liberalism, [dissident priest Hans] Kung would tool around the narrow streets of the Germany university town of Tubingen in his Porsche, leaving the poor bicycling Father Ratzinger [the current pope] in the dust. Some forty years later, the Tortoise of Truth had passed the Hare of Relativism.
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