Steven P. BarrettREAL ANGLICANS SPLIT FROM WAYWARD (LINK)
June 23rd 2008 05:17
DOES ANYBODY SEE THE CONNECTION HERE? OR AM I THE ONLY CYNICAL CHRISTIAN?
Let us all give thanks to the ECUSA for this!
ACCORDING TO A REPORT WRITTEN BY CATHOLIC NEWS WORLD:
"Conservative Anglicans to Announce Schism"
Jerusalem, Jun. 20, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Conservative Anglican prelates, meeting in Israel next week in an alternative to the Lambeth Conference, will announce that they can no longer remain in communion with the Church of England, the London Daily Telegraph reports.
The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), convened by African Anglican bishops, will essentially announce a schism in the Anglican communion, according to the Telegraph story. The conservative bishops will say that there is no realistic prospect for retaining unity among the world's Anglican leaders because of grave disagreements on doctrine and practice.
The GAFCON meeting was called by Anglican prelates who are at odds with their liberal colleagues over the ordination of an openly homosexual American bishop, Gene Robinson. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has struggled to maintain unity despite these severe disagreements. But Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola, the most prominent leader of the conservative wing, sees that struggle as doomed. In a statement prepared for the GAFCON meeting, the African prelate says flatly: "There is no longer any hope, therefore, for a unified communion."
(emphasis mine.)The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), convened by African Anglican bishops, will essentially announce a schism in the Anglican communion, according to the Telegraph story. The conservative bishops will say that there is no realistic prospect for retaining unity among the world's Anglican leaders because of grave disagreements on doctrine and practice.
The GAFCON meeting was called by Anglican prelates who are at odds with their liberal colleagues over the ordination of an openly homosexual American bishop, Gene Robinson. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has struggled to maintain unity despite these severe disagreements. But Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola, the most prominent leader of the conservative wing, sees that struggle as doomed. In a statement prepared for the GAFCON meeting, the African prelate says flatly: "There is no longer any hope, therefore, for a unified communion."
DURING ONE OF MY MORE REBELLIOUS PHASES IN LIFE, I NEARLY JOINED THE ECUSA, BUT THE MORE AND MORE I LOOKED, INSPITE OF ALL MY YEARNINGS FOR THE OLD TRADITIONAL MASSES THAT THE KUMBAYA KATHOLIC KROWD HAD STRANGLED OUT OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH -- I REALIZED THAT TRUTH MUST ALWAYS TRUMP STYLE, EVEN IT IF MEANT PUTTING UP WITH SOME KUMBAYA STUFF UNTIL A NEW POPE WITH STIFFER BRISTLES WOULD EVENTUALLY CLEAN HOUSE. (BENEDICT'S ANSWERED MY PRAYERS QUITE SUFFICIENTLY IN THIS REGARD. BUT THERE WAS NO WAY I COULD GO ALONG WITH THE EPISCOPALIANS SELL OUT TO ONE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP AFTER ANOTHER.
IT USED TO BE KNOWN AS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AT PRAYER. NO LONGER. IT'S FAST BECOMING TO THE DEMOCRATS WHAT JIM DOBSON'S BECOME TO THE HARD RELIGIOUS RIGHT IN THE GOP'S SO-CALLED "BIG TENT."
MAYBE I'M JUST A CRUSTY OLD "HOMOPHOBE," A RELIC FROM THE PAST, NOT UP TO DATE WITH TODAY'S NEW WAY OF THINKING. NO, I'M JUST A RELIC SPEAKING OUT ON BEHALF OF ANY DEMOSTRATION OF RESPECT FOR REAL AUTHORITY.
NOT EVERY DISAPPOINTED ANGLICAN IS GOING TO "CROSS THE TIBER," SO IT ONLY STANDS TO REASON THAT THEY NEED A FOUNDATIONAL SPIRITUAL HOME, SOMETHING THEY HAVEN'T HAD IN DECADES, AND I MEAN DECADES!
Tintern Abbey, United Kingdom
AS FOR THOSE LIBERALS WHO DON'T SEEM BOTHERED IN THE LEAST ABOUT MAINTAINING ANY RESPECT FOR WHAT GOD HAS TO SAY IN ALL OF THIS, SO BE IT IF THAT'S YOUR FANCY. QUITE FRANKLY, I'VE NEVER HAD ANY TRUCK WITH HOMOSEXUALS. THEY LIVE THEIR LIVES, I LIVE MINE. AND I'VE NEVER BEEN A BIG FAN OF THE RUSH LIMBAUGH AND HARD-CORE RIGHT WING TREATMENT OF THEM, EITHER. BUMS LIKE RUSH LOVE TO CHARACTERIZE AND DEMONIZE PEOPLE THEY DON'T LIKE OR REFUSE TO EVEN GIVE EVEN THE SLIGHTEST BENEFIT OF ANY DOUBT.
Gene Robinson, Controversial "bishop
SO THIS ISN'T BY ANY MEANS A "GAY-BASHING" POST. NOT BY ANY MEASURE. BUT I'M NOT GOING TO STAND BY AND SEE A ONCE DIGNIFIED BRANCH OF THE CHURCH CATHOLIC COMMIT SUICIDE OVER THE POLITICALLY CORRECT POLITICS OF TRENDY THOUGHTS AND PRIDE OF POSITION WITHOUT REGARDS TO WHAT GOD HAS TO SAY IN ALL OF THIS.
IT WASN'T AS IF ALL OF A SUDDEN ONE DAY THE ECUSA DECIDED IT HAD TO HAVE AN OPENLY GAY BISHOP. NOR IS HE THE FIRST GAY BISHOP IN HISTORY. AS A CATHOLIC, I'LL HAVE TO ADMIT TO SOME CHAGRIN TO A FEW OF OUR OWN, SOME OF WHOM COMMITTED SUCH GRAVELY MORTAL SINS OF DERELICTION OF DUTY THAT IT'LL TAKE YEARS OF BOTH SPIRITUAL AND LEGAL WORK TO EVEN COME CLOSE TO HELPING THE PEOPLE VICTIMIZED BY THE PRIESTS THE BISHOPS IN MY CHURCH LET RUN LOOSE WHILE THEY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE GAY TO DO THAT, YOU JUST HAVE TO BE AMORALLY DERELICT AND INDIFFERENT, NOT TO MENTION UTTERLY INCOMPETENT IN THE MOST BASIC DUTY OF BEING A SHEPHERD, GUARDING THE FLOCK FROM DANGER.
WELL, THE ONLY TIME JESUS CAME CLOSE TO SUGGESTING HE FAVORED THE DEATH PENALTY DEALT WITH THE PRICE ADULTS SHOULD PAY FOR "CAUSING SCANDAL" TO HIS "LITTLE ONES." SO FAR AS I CAN TELL, ROBINSON'S GOT A CLEAN RECORD IN THIS AREA.
WHAT I DON'T LIKE IS HIS SWARMY SMUGNESS, HIS PRIDE AND ARROGANCE. NOR DO I CARE FOR THE REASONS GIVEN BY THOSE WHO ELECTED HIM, ONLY FOR THEM TO THEN TURN AROUND AND THROW OUT THE EPITHET "HOMOPHOBE" TO THE REST OF US WHO MIGHT FIND SOMETHING WRONG ELECTING A MAN TO THE BISHOPORIC RANKS WHO ABANDONED HIS WIFE AND KIDS FOR A BOYFRIEND (ADULTERY), OPENLY PRACTICED HOMOSEXUAL SEX (THAT'S ALSO PROSCRIBED IN THE BOOK HE'S SWORN TO OBEY) AND OPENLY FLAUNTS THE EFFORTS OF THE ENTIRE ANGLICAN CHURCH TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY HIS ELECTION. HE COULD'VE AND SHOULD'VE BACKED OFF IN A SIGN OF HUMILITY TO THE LORD IF HE THOUGHT FOR A SECOND THAT GOING AHEAD WITH HIS CONSECRATION AS A BISHOP WOULD CAUSE SO MUCH PAIN.
HOMOSEXUALITY ISN'T THE BIG OFFENSE HERE, THOUGH IT'S UP THERE. IT'S PRIDE AND MISUSE OF AUTHORITY, NOT TO MENTION THE WILLFUL IGNORANCE OF GOD'S AUTHORITY AS EXPRESSED THROUGHOUT SCIPTURE CONCERNING HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR.
WHY SHOULD ANYBODY BE SURPRISED THAT PRIDE HAS A ROLE IN ALL OF THIS? AFTER ALL, THE ECUSA WAS THE FIRST BRANCH OF THE WORLDWIDE ANGLICAN COMMUNION TO ORDAIN WOMEN DEACONS AND PRIESTS, THEN A SUFFRAGAN BISHOP, BARBARA HARRIS OF MASSACHUSETTS, WHICH WAS FOLLOWED UP BY THE BISHOPS JACK SPONG, (NEWARK, NJ) AND PAUL MOORE (NEW YORK) GOING OUT OF THEIR WAY TO ORDAIN OPENLY GAY PRIESTS, AND THESE OUTRAGES WERE (SUPPOSEDLY) TOPPED BY GENE ROBINSON'S "CONSECRATION" AS NEW HAMPSHIRE'S BISHOP.
Episcopal Shield "in distress
ECUSA's first woman (and maybe) LAST bishop.
BUT WAIT! THE ECUSA WASN'T DONE. NO, NOT IN THE LEAST. THEY HAD TO TOP THIS OFF WITH THE ELECTION OF KATHERINE JEFFERTS SCHORI AS THEIR NEW PRESIDING BISHOP, REPRESENTING THE MASSIVE DIOCESE OF LAS VEGAS, NV.
Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, NV (courtesy of Wiki upload.)
PARDON MY PUN HERE, BUT THEY ROLLED THE DICE AND REALLY CAME UP CRAPPERS WITH THIS CHOICE. THERE ARE PROBABLY MORE EPISCOPALIANS PLAYING AND WORKING THE BLACK-JACK TABLES IN THE TWO LARGEST CASINOS IN THE WORLD (MOHEGAN SUN AND FOXWOODS) -- LOCATED IN RURAL CONNECTICUT -- THAN IN ALL OF LAS VEGAS, MUCH LESS THE REST OF THE DIOCESE.
THEY COULD LET ALL MORAL STANDARDS SLIDE INTO THE OCEANS, AND NOTHING MOVED THEM TO SAY "HMMM, SOMETHING'S A LITTLE OFF, HERE." BUT, NOOOOO,
IT WAS ONLY AFTER SOME REAL ANGLICANS WHO STUCK WITH SCRIPTURE, TRADITION AND REASON, AND REALLY TOOK WHAT THEY READ IN THEIR BOOKS OF COMMON PRAYER SERIOUSLY ALL OF A SUDDEN DECIDED TO TELL THEIR BISHOPS WHO SUPPORTED ROBINSON THAT "NOPE," THIS WON'T DO, OR THAT THEIR PARISHES HAD ENOUGH AND DECIDED TO LEAVE.
ALL OF A SUDDEN THE WORD "AUTHORITY" TOOK ON SOME MEANING. TO READ ANYTHING COMING FROM SCHORI IS TO READ A P.R. PIECE COMING FROM THE KREMLIN OF STALIN'S DAY. GOOD THING THIS WOMAN ONLY FLIES A PIPER CUB. STALIN JOKED ABOUT THE "POPE'S DIVISIONS." HELL, I WOULDN'T WITH THIS WOMAN. IT MIGHT GIVE HER IDEAS.
SHE GETS TO RUN FREE WHILE HER AMERICAN BRANCH RUNS RIOT, MUCH LIKE THE INMATES UNDER JACK NICHOLSON'S CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP WHO TOOK OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. AND WHY IS THIS SO? JUST LOOK AT THE "LEADERSHIP" OF THE WORLDWIDE ANGLICAN COMMUNION THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO GATHER IN LAMBETH PALACE UNDER THE "GUIDANCE" OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, ROWAN (YAWN) WILLIAMS. LAMBETH IS IN LONDON, DIRECTLY ACROSS THE THAMES RIVER FROM PARLIAMENT AND ALSO UNDER THE SHADOW OF THAT ATROCITY OF A FERRIS WHEEL.
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
SEEING THAT LAMBETH WILL SOON BE AS USELESS AS THE ARCHBISHOP WHO'S SUPPOSED TO EXERT SOME LEADERSHIP FROM IT, THEY MIGHT AS WELL TURN IT INTO AN ACADEMY FOR CIRCUS ACTORS OR GIVE THE KEYS TO THAT AND CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL WHICH THEY STOLE (ALONG WITH LOTS OF OTHER PLACES) DURING THEIR TOP DOWN "REFORMATION" FROM WHICH THEY TAKE THEIR POINT OF ORIGIN FROM. THAT, TOO, WAS DIPPED DEEP INTO THE BATH OF SEX AND PRIDE.
BUT THERE'S NO WAY IN HELL HENRY VIII OR HIS DAUGHTER ELIZABETH I WOULD'VE TOLERATED "BISHOPS" LIKE THOSE TWO IN THEIR FUTURE COLONIES WHO'VE DONE SO MUCH TO UNRAVEL IN JUST A FEW YEARS WHAT IT TOOK YEARS AND CASKETS OF BLOOD TO ESTABLISH.
HOW IRONIC, THAT THOSE WHO TOOK UP THE "WHITE MAN'S BURDEN" WILL NOW HAVE TO RECOGNIZE REAL AUTHORITY IN THE PERSON AND PRIMACY OF PRELATE ARCHBISHOP PETER AKINOLA OF NIGERIA. IT'S A WHOLE NEW WORLD, GET OVER THE OLD AND GET USED TO THE NEW. IT'LL BE MUCH BETTER, THAT'S FOR SURE.
A Real Archbishop, Nigeria's Abp. Peter Akinola
Canterbury Cathedral, UK, Seat of Anglican Apb. Rowan Williams, formerly owned by the Holy See of the Catholic Church
NOW IF WE CAN GET THOSE DAMN STONES BACK UP THAT MOUNTAIN TO FIX THAT NOBLE GRANITE YANKEE'S FACE!
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