Saturday, September 29, 2007

Does anyone hear that tearing sound?

The folk at the Continuum have reported upon the Common Cause Partnership, the alliance of conservative American Parishes opposed to the liberal excesses of ECUSA. Albion Land comments:

"In the short term, however, we face the prospect of Avignon versus Rome -- two entities vying with each other as the true face of "mainstream Anglicanism" and seeking to convince the world of their bonae fides."
Which will be the true Anglicanism? Only the Anglicanism with the roots can survive. As we remember the parable of the Sower, it is only the Church whose roots go into the deep soil that will grow and produce the fruit of love because she bears the message.

It will not be the feeble "Anglicanism" of Dr. Jefferts-Schori that just tries to reinterpret Scripture to suit the whims of the people. This will be attractive to people because it will not require them to think but rather just to be "nice" people. It will issue no challenge to live the hard Gospel. It has no teeth to challenge wrongdoing because it has already accepted wrongdoing as allowable.

It will only be the Anglicanism that faithfully holds to the Truth as it has always been taught. If she holds to this course, then there is only one, wonderful outcome: Reunion with the members of the Holy See that hold the same course and the Orthodox Churches.

The split has to happen for Anglicanism to grow. We cannot hang on to doctrinally dead weight any more.

1 comment:

Ecgbert said...

The split has to happen.

I agree! No more games. The huge majority of the Anglican Communion - Protestant, not white, not rich and not liberal - should prevail and the Episcopal Church dropped from membership. The Controversial Issue™ at hand is as much a deal-breaker as the classic ones separating Protestants from Catholics!

Such a break-up wouldn't affect 90 per cent of Episcopalians in any way.

Just read in one of the loud liberal blogs that out of a few thousand parishes only about 60 whole conservative ones are looking to leave.

The only inevitable outcomes are a few parishes will be split and a few others squashed.

The other side are as varied a lot as conservatives (again, most of whom are Protestants). The new centre in Episcopalianism is credally orthodox and even liturgically conservative but has women priests and gay weddings.

We're not in communion, and there's nothing hateful in being honest about that, but they are Christians and in some sense in the same family.

The door is always open: all are welcome to come to the Catholic Church.