Hundreds of disaffected Anglicans left the Church of England to become Roman Catholics on Ash Wednesday, the Christian day of penance.
The day set by the church to welcome converts wishing to join the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, a unique grouping created by Pope Benedict XVI for Anglicans left feeling isolated since the Church of England decided in 1992 to ordain women as priests.
Tensions have grown further as the governing General Synod moves to allow women to become bishops while denying special structures to protect the sensitivities of the objectors.
A verb, a verb, my kingdom for a verb!
If I am reading the second paragraph correctly, it is a long LONG noun phrase. There’s no verb in it. Mark Twain must have been thinking of the AP when he wrote:
“You observe how far that verb is from the reader’s base of operations; well, in a German newspaper they put their verb away over on the next page; and I have heard that sometimes after stringing along the exciting preliminaries and parentheses for a column or two, they get in a hurry and have to go to press without getting to the verb at all. ”
I think the intended meaning may have been:
“This was also the day set by the church….”
Well, they OUGHT to do penance for joining the Church of Rome. 😉
20 priests and 600 parishioners. That means they will have priests left over for other work, priests who have already proved their dediction to conservative religious values in difficult times. Not a bad deal from Rome’s point of view.
The numbers aren’t huge, but they are real. They can be followed by more – something that General Synod of the CofE needs to think about as it debates the women bishops measure.
[blockquote]”I spent so many years battling to defend the faith from within the Church of England, which is crazy, and that’s taken all my energy away from visiting the sick, preaching the good news and helping people,” Tomlinson said in an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. radio.[/blockquote]
Does he realize how this sounds? It doesn’t speak highly of him as a pastor, that he spent his energy on political rows instead of ministry. Well, if it’s church politics that attracts his energy, he’s about to be in nirvana! 😉
#2, I think they’ll find just BEING in the Catholic Church will provide penance enough.. 😉
#3
It’s actually closer to 60 priests. I did a tot up of those openly declared and those known to be going, and without much difficulty arrived at a figure of 40+ names.