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December 28, 2003
Coming and Going
And, in the continuing of saga of "learn your beat," we have this odd statement:
A small number of married Episcopal priests are now allowed to minister in Roman Catholic churches that lack their own clergy members.
Um. The implication is that Episcopalian priests are ministering in RC parishes. Not quite.
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What -are- they doing, then?
Posted by: Rinon Mavar at Dec 29, 2003 1:34:40 PM
The point is that the Episcopal priests are no longer Episcopalian--they've converted to Catholicism.
The article seems to state that they are still Episcopalians who now have permission to minister to Catholic parishes.
That's what Amy was getting at.
Posted by: Dale Price at Dec 29, 2003 2:28:19 PM
I liked the essay at Cstholic Analysis on this one.
Posted by: Caroline at Dec 29, 2003 3:09:16 PM
The NY Times knows as much about Catholic doctrine as an ass does about playing the harp.
I would never disagree with the right of people to become Unitarians, from which mainline Protestant churches have become largely indistinguishable. But I didn't become a Catholic, having been a Unitarian, so that I could hear Unitarianism taught. So if infidel clergy or others want to leave the Catholic Church and join bodies that have lost most of their identifiably Christian traits, let them be honest and do so. Leave the Church to those who believe in Christ and His teaching. And let's forget about so-called ecumenical cooperation with those who have abandoned any kind of tangible belief system, let alone any belief in Christ. Those who are, with the Catholic Church, loyal to Christ: the Orthodox, confessional Evangelicals (LCMS, EPC, CRC), and those free-church Evangelicals who have firm articles of faith--these should be our partners.
Posted by: Henry Dieterich at Dec 29, 2003 6:06:05 PM
Converts from the RC Church were indispensible in the process of ruining of the Episcopal Church. Bishop James Pike was a former Roman Catholic seminarian who lost his faith and practiced law for awhile. He then decided that the Episcopal Church was his meal ticket for the clergy because it allowed greater "freedom of inquiry" than the Catholic Church and rose up through the ranks quickly. The Episcopal Church may have fallen apart without him (it was the 60s after all), but his election as Bishop of California and the subsequent failure of the House of Bishops to discipline him was the one event that signaled to the heretics and apostates that they could say or preach anything they wanted with complete impunity. A report arising from the Pike Affair that was issued by what was called "the Bayne Commission" and subsequently adopted by the House of Bishop (except for one bishop) essentially declared that the concept of heresy no longer had any place in the Episcopal Church. And with that, the dam broke.
The Bayne Report is hard to find but it makes for grim reading if you happen to run across it.
Posted by: Patrick Rothwell at Dec 29, 2003 6:23:35 PM
