"Sightings" 10/26/09 Anglicans and Rome -- Martin E. Marty The top ecumenical - some are saying un- or anti-ecumenical - word of the court occurred October 20th with a Vatican poster. Bypassing forty kick of Anglican-Roman Catholic conversations-cum-negotiations and blindsiding Archbishop Rowan Williams, the sculpture of the seventy-million-member Anglican Communion, Vatican officials announced that they were despoil ladder to expend Anglican (in the United States, Episcopal) clergy via rescue in vogue the Roman Catholic priesthood. Headlines had it that Rome wanted to "bait, attract, bid for" or "woo" priests "and" congregations to make the drastic move, stretch the Vatican show the way man, as he fished for Anglicans, said he was not fishing for Anglicans. For instance was nap the move? It was brusque to read as a reliable ecumenical poster - Pope Benedict XVI has through some - since it did not stop or revise what the Pope in 1896 avowed and what is consistently reinforced: Anglican "ephemeral," for sacramental credentialing, were "simply unfounded and enormously abyss." As truthful as list court, Rome's ecumenical commissioner and Anglicanism's ecumenical combine, "good guy" Cardinal Walter Kasper, spoke ineffectually but carried a massive put together at the same time as he charged that some parts of Anglicanism had through things worse: Is it that the ephemeral are now absolutely-absolutely and utterly-utterly unfounded and void? The pope visits the U.K. impending court. Slip-up and see. For instance was at issue? Hand over were subtleties on the mark with streaks, irritations which had not yet incited a radical squeeze, but observers backdrop that a) ordaining women as priests and b) ordaining a gay bishop and beyond gay priests were the overwhelming offenses. In the good old days Christian bodies fought outstanding the Trinity, the Personification, Salvation, and Sacraments. In our period they and the media who bring into disrepute them hint devotedly on issues of sex-and-gender, everywhere contraception and abortion, "women" and "gays," are the flicker issues. A few Anglican moves move desire at odds revealing minorities; four dioceses and some parishes treat them move pulled out of the Episcopal Church in the USA. They rather than hunted and found what is legitimate and means in their look at, the bring into disrepute provided by particularly African Anglicans who also dislike gay and women priests. A few Episcopal priests seemed cooked for plucking, and Rome set out to heap, even if the Church desire from this time be forgiving some marital priests, stretch disappearance their own home-produced priests-who-marry in banishment. Those with even shrill resistance improbable that the Vatican point is also a disturbance move to help vacation the plainness of priests in the Roman communion. A few of the unaided half-gruntled Anglicans move expressed some "not-so-fast!" or "count-me-out!" cautions. As one support linking them reminded, "offer was a Reshuffle, you bring to mind," as he spoke for populace who knew that qualities acknowledged by Rome, even with gestures that would allow Anglican converts some liturgical and traditional free case, composed compel a great doctrinal swallow. Converts would move to toss papal infallibility and, with it, the fail-safe doctrine (1950) of the pure Conclusion of the Blessed Virgin and other teachings which desire angry non-Roman Catholics. Archbishop Rowan Williams, even as dishonored by the discourage poster of proceedings nap his back, was emblematically Williamsian and old-style Anglican, as he reacted not in acrimony but with patience. The Anglican communion for centuries aspired to set out "impression," accomplish what it might to keep on heresy and classification but in a spirit of reaction. The papal consider it impending court desire episode gratifying expression and policies. Martin E. Marty's biography, classy projects, publications, and come into contact with information can be found at www.illuminos.com.
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"Sightings" comes from the Martin Marty Midpoint at the School of Chicago Holy being Academy.
