Rome is an evil institution that lives on the submission not to spiritual liturgy but to a few members of the italian mafia whose goal is to take over our banking system and dominate europe by way of the creation of the EU and America by this step as stated in the article. The vatican’s goal is a new world order where the pope will be the pseudo head of state. The black pope (the pupet master) is counting on the failure of our current economic system by having his jesuit soldiers who control 75% of the federal reserve via the london banks that loan money for the printing of US dollars, once the economy fails the world will go into another dark age and the most powerful bankers will secure all the wealth with their cronies in rome. My friends, this is something so complex, I know, but yet so beyond than the gay issue; we must be aware of the ever growing power of the church which is a threat to our basic liberty as gay and lesbian Americans.

There was a schism in the 1890s (I believe it was) … the “Reformed Episcopal Church” marched out over prayers for the dead and “catholic” ceremonial … all that was left of them until the present Troubles was a few empty churches (mostly in the Philadelphia area) and a few ancient “cardinal rectors.” They picked up a few members from the more recent Troubles.

The schism in 1976 generated more than 15 breakaway bodies; by their own count, they number less than 3500 souls in all FIFTEEN (!).

The largest parish, where I had the misfortune of being organist for a number of years (family to feed and all that) is St. Matthew’s Anglican Catholic Church in Orange County, CA. They have 350 members.

The newer schismatic Anglican Province of North America is GROSSLY inflating their numbers. There are SUBSTANTIAL groups in the dioceses of Pittsburgh and Ft. Worth who have NO intention of leaving. The dioceses of Quincy and San Joaquin were small weak dioceses that had ALREADY split from their parent dioceses. Quincy has something like 17 PARISHES *total*, none of them large.

Dallas is threatening to leave ECUSA, but I think the unanimous rulings of various courts that the properties and endowments belong to the national Church (per the “Dennis Canon” passed by the General Convention back in the 1970s, I think it was) will give them pause.

St. James “Nigerian Anglican Church” (or whatever they are) in Newport Beach CA, where the American Anglican Council started, is going to lose their brand-new multi-million dollar church, which they built as an act of defiance of ECUSA.

Frankly, one of the BIGGEST problems Rome is going to have with married Anglican priests who swim the Tiber is SUPPORTING them and their families.

Anglican rectors make upwards of $100K per annum in wealthy parishes, and some of these parishes ARE wealthy, though they’re likely to LOSE all that if they go to Rome.

US Roman pastors make something like $900/mo plus room & board (in a common rectory) and healthcare.

No Anglican is going to be able to support a family on THAT.

Imagine being quoted as being stark raving mad, to the point of leaving the church you supposedly devoted your life to, over the inclusion of women in the workforce? These men are simply pigs.

And the celibate thing just cracks me up. Its like DADT. We’ve already learned many of them are far, far from celibate.

Can’t wait to book my tickets to Rome for the fabulous auction of all that stuff!

In the first place, as has been doccumented, the Church knows that many if not most priests in Europe are secretly married; in effect, the supposed strictness of abstinence have been quietly relaxed in those countries, while in the United States — and to a somewhat lesser degree in Latin American countries — the only supposedly celibate priests are pederastic homosexuals.

As a surviving Episcopalean I must say the Anglicans could be diving from the frying pan into the pits of hell.