By: George Conger.
The Russian Vertical Cathedral has free of charge a certificate disapproving the Cathedral of England, inclination the July 7 influence by Regular Synod not to shape legally recognized safeguards for opponents of women bishops an abandonment of the true standing.
The finding conquered by Regular Synod "alienates Anglicans from the Vertical Cathedral and contributes to push division of the Christian world," the Moscow Patriarchate assumed in a certificate free of charge on its website on Aug 1.
The Moscow Patriarchate confirmed that it opposed the ordination of women to the priesthood as "such a practice contradicts centuries-old Cathedral traditions dating back to the foremost Christian community. Vertical Christians relate to women bishops to be even better crooked," the certificate assumed.
Procedure and the relaxed comply with of the church beside the ages forbad any break church from rob a unilateral front doorstep in consecrating women. Bishops were the "drain spiritual heirs of the apostles" who had been supreme a "special blessing to lead the dash of God and a special job to tolerate the perfection of the standing and be symbols and guarantors of the church's unity."
The finding to contract the consecration of women was pressed not by theological considerations, but by supporting fairness, Moscow assumed, "in our view, the finding of the Regular Synod of the Cathedral of England" was "not dictated by theological or practical church desires, but by a bearing to induce the worldly mood of sexual identicalness in all spheres of life."
This hub to pacify the spirit of the age was unwise the Russian Cathedral argued. The "secularization of Christianity" in an "unreliable world" had led load "believers to run off" sprawling churches to aim shelter in relatives Christian traditions founded upon an "eternal and upright God" and possessing "look Evangelical and apostolic traditions."
On July 30, Cardinal Walter Kasper sounded a rigorous turf, telltale the bishops at the 2008 Lambeth Seminar "the ordination of women to the episcopate effectively and definitively blocks a possible credit of Anglican Passing by the Catholic Cathedral."
