Comments on: Vatican to decide each case of Anglican priests

By: pinkfone

pinkfone — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:01:40 +0000

So will the vatican be putting these anglican vicars through their anti gay test which they have promised to new catholic clergy??? The only answer is for the anglican church to reform and side with the Lutheran and Episcipalians and stand at arms length from the african anglicans!

By: Drewski

Drewski — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:17:46 +0000

…and in other news, a mass of men in red silk dresses marched through the center of Rome, apparently unaware that it was neither the time nor the location for Fashion Week in Milan. Frightened children were counseled by a team of trained counselors.

By: SteveMD2

SteveMD2 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:30:25 +0000

Isn’t it amazing how the Razi pope will do almost anything to protect his prejudices. It comes from growing up in Nazi germany, and he hasn’t forgotten the “lessons of his youth”

The goal of humanity should be to drive down the membership of this middle ages group, which has been the root cause or a supporting player in so many over it’s entire history. Case in point how Hitler, a catholic, used the church based hatred of Jesus own people to leverage his election. For which 50 million or more died.

Yes, the church is now preying on innocent Africans. I know it is not right to say this, but as the Africans join the very right wing Anglicans, and cheer the pope (who basically says don’t use condoms, go die”), I’ve lost interest in what happens in that poor continent.

Parts of Islam are mad, but with the current pope, the same thing can be said for the catholic church.

For the church cares only about it’s power, and it’s ability to corrupt minds, hence gaining robots for its cause. It’s obviously opposes cloning, while at the same time runing the worst and most effective mind cloning operation in the world. Hipocrisy hardly begins to tell the truth about these people, and anyone who stays in the church should be ashamed to be part of it.

Go read the “End of Faith”, and you’ll see what I mean.

By: Wendell Cochran

Wendell Cochran — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:51:30 +0000

So, says the Pope: In no case could a married man become a bishop… Ever wonder why? Cause, when, as the case long ago in Roman Papal History when the hiarchy were allowed to marry, a married Bishop dies, leaving legitimate heirs and a widow, under civil law his estate of personal property and accumulated wealth must be probated and apportioned to his next of kin/family by the courts of the country in which he died. Thus preventing the Church from laying claim to his property as an acting official of the church. It happened once and immediately there after Roman changed the law to prevent Bishops, or any member of the clergy for that matter, from ever getting married. Hence the infamous celebicy rule — not to keep them pure at heart, but to insure that the Pope gets every sheckle, every alm, and every gold candle stick the dead cleric might possible have in his possesion at the time of death. Nice scam if you can make the rules.

I wonder what the wife of a Anglican Priest will have to forego, by her legal signature of conpliance, we can be sure, when her husband converts and is ordained a Catholic priest? Give it all to Jesus and live in poverty? Generous of the Pope to make his benevolent offer, ain’t it.

By: robertocucina

robertocucina — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:00:30 +0000

Will be interesting to see how many will leave the Anglican/Episcopalian communion after centuries of rejecting transubstantiation. Catholics are taught to believe that a divine entity is present at the consecration of the wine and the host, the body and blood of Jesus Christ, the very antithesis of Anglican belief.

By: bama-stu

bama-stu — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:55:54 +0000

As a practicing Anglican, albeit what is considered a Liberal Anglican, I can truthfully say that anyone who converts to Roman Catholicism will have some major theological issues to overcome. I can honestly say, that if I was thinking about leaving the Church (which I am not), the Roman Catholic Church would not even figure into my thinking. Too many absolute theological problems. I predict that a lot less will convert than they are expecting.

By: Matthew Simonds

Matthew Simonds — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:19:07 +0000

its sad when a church defines it self by the people/groups it hates, how the catholic church thinks that is the message of Christ I will never know.

By: Terryinindy

Terryinindy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:51:48 +0000

Ah the irony, joining together because they both hate the same group….

By: Raymond H. Clark

Raymond H. Clark — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:48:59 +0000

As with other Rites who have been re-united with Rome, their identity will survive for a generation; then it will be swallowed up in the Latin/Roman Rite.

An intriguing possibility DOES exist: when the Roman Catholic hierarchy was re-established in Britain in the 1800s, they were offered the restoration of the beautiful and complex pre-reformation Sarum Use, which is related to the Mozarabic, Gallican, and Ambrosian Rites, as well as containing elements from the Easter Rites.

At the time, British Catholics chose not to accept the restoration of the Sarum Use, but rather embraced the ultramontane so-called “Tridentine Rite,” aka “the ‘Traditional’ Latin Mass,” which is approximately the same age as the First Prayer Book of 1549, to show loyalty to the pope.

HOWEVER, with the restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass, it’s entirely possible that high-church dissident British Anglicans will embrace the restoration of Sarum, which is, among other things, a liturgical drag-show worthy of Fellini’s “Roma.” (chuckle)

Married priests are coming to the Roman Church, like it or not. The average US Roman priest is 60 years old, and the age is rising every year. Los Angeles ordains one or two priests a year, while more than 20 a year die or retire.

What progressives need to FEAR is that the next pope will be an über-conservative AFRICAN from one of the countries where homosexuality is punishable by DEATH.

THAT is ENTIRELY possible.