Massachusetts Episcopalians and Catholics this weekend weighed the Vatican’s invitation for traditionalist Anglicans to become Catholics, with some vehemently rejecting the idea and others saying its impact is unclear until more details are known.
Massachusetts Episcopalians and Catholics this weekend weighed the Vatican’s invitation for traditionalist Anglicans to become Catholics, with some vehemently rejecting the idea and others saying its impact is unclear until more details are known.
Clearly, the secular media is clueless.
Clearly the Boston media is liberal centric and not worthy of the label “objective news source.” Hack job at best.
Intercessor
“Outside Trinity Church in Copley Square, Lindsey Weeramuni of Jamaica Plain questioned the Vatican’s overture, saying that one of the reasons she attends that Episcopalian church is because it is so inclusive.
“If all of God’s children are just that, why are some more deserving of God’s love than others, in the eyes of one particular church?’’ Weeramuni asked”.
The priesthood and episcopate are not “rights” or something you “deserve”.
Neither is the sacrament of marriage. Episcopal priests are canonically allowed to refuse the sacrament of marriage for straight couples, too. NO ONE, gay or straight, has a right, either, to arbitrarily alter the sacrament as it is currently defined–one man, one woman. If you have a problem with that, take it up with your church’s chief theologian; for Anglicans the AB of C, for Catholics, the Pope.
God’s “love” is not hallmarked by blessing what the Scriptures outline as sin; parents do not show their children they “love” them by allowing a behavioral free-for-all and overindulging childhood self-absorption and sense of entitlement.
“The Vatican’s announcement last week that it would ease the way for disaffected Anglicans to join the Catholic Church prompted strong negative reactions from some progressive Episcopal priests and parishioners, who saw Pope Benedict XVI as capitalizing on divisions in the Anglican Communion over the ordination of female priests and an openly gay bishop”.
Uh, so?
“Uh, so?”
Says it all…thank you so much.
Intercessor
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I thought my comment was articulate and well-thought out.
Oh, sorry, this comment is a one-liner… 🙂