The 400,000-strong Traditional Anglican Communion, passed the following resolutions last Thursday, now made public: That this Assembly, representing the Traditional Anglican Communion in Great Britain, offers its joyful thanks to Pope Benedict XVI for his forthcoming Apostolic Constitution allowing the corporate reunion of Anglicans with the Holy See, and requests the Primate and College of… Continue reading A Great Step Forward, and Its Detractors
Tag: Anglicanism
A Study in Contrasts (and a Blog Worth Checking Out)
Taylor Marshall, who asked the question I just addressed, is a former Anglican/Episopalian priest who became Catholic in 2006. He now runs an aptly-named blog, Canterbury Tales. He recounts his reaction to the news of the Apostolic Constitution here: I was teaching Moral Theology this morning when I learned that the Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans… Continue reading A Study in Contrasts (and a Blog Worth Checking Out)
Prescience, pt. 2
Taylor Marshall asked, “Did Josemaria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei prophesy the Anglican Ordinariates?” The “prophesy” in question is from a 1958 quote by St. Josemaria, recounted by Msgr. Bill Stetson (incidentally, the head of the Catholic Information Center, where I go to Mass during the week, until 2007 – I just missed him). While… Continue reading Prescience, pt. 2
Dr. Hunt, “Catholic,” Against the Welcoming Home of Anglicans
I. Introducing Dr. HuntI try and avoid calling into question anyone’s claim to be Catholic. I might say that they’re a dissident, theologically liberal, or even heterodox Catholic, but I don’t like saying “Catholic” with quotation marks. God knows their heart, and if we start parsing through everything they’ve said to compare it with Church… Continue reading Dr. Hunt, “Catholic,” Against the Welcoming Home of Anglicans
The Price of Converting to Catholicism
I’d wondered how anyone could oppose the Vatican’s action in making things easier for Anglicans to convert. After all, they sent a letter stating their collective desire to become Catholic, but wanting to keep their flock together. Certainly, you can legitimately think that the right thing to do is for these Traditional Anglicans to patch… Continue reading The Price of Converting to Catholicism
Prescience
Whatever his flaws (and I’ve mentioned those previously), Fr. Richard McBrien seems to be on the right side of the “Episcopalian Question,” that is, that the Episcopal Church (TEC) in the US and Canada has pursued a hyper-liberal agenda (like allowing women and active homosexuals to become priests/priestesses, and in the case of Gene Robinson,… Continue reading Prescience
The Traditional Anglican Communion Responds
Catholic and even secular newssources have been abuzz with news of a coming Apostolic Constitution that sounds as though it was all Anglicans to become fully part of the Catholic Church while maintaining the distinct elements of their liturgy which they hold dear – in short, something similar to what was done in the creation… Continue reading The Traditional Anglican Communion Responds
Welcome Home, Anglicans!
This is astonishing news. Pope Benedict XVI has created an entirely new Church structure for disaffected Anglicans that will allow them to worship together – using elements of Anglican liturgy – under the pastoral supervision of their own specially appointed bishop or senior priest.The Pope is now offering Anglicans worldwide “corporate reunion” on terms that… Continue reading Welcome Home, Anglicans!
It’s A Poor Builder Who Blames His Instruments…
…while the Master Builder can build masterpieces with any set of tools. Or fools. In an ongoing discussion with one of my Calvinist friends a few weeks ago, he said, “I fear that the heirarchies of the Catholic church detract from the kingship of Christ, who I believe needs no prime minister and serves actively… Continue reading It’s A Poor Builder Who Blames His Instruments…
Contraception and Homosexuality
Archbishop Rowan Williams, the spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, had this to say on the topic of homosexuality and contraception: In a church that accepts the legitimacy of contraception, the absolute condemnation of same-sex relations of intimacy must rely either on an abstract fundamentalist deployment of a number of very ambiguous biblical texts, or… Continue reading Contraception and Homosexuality