My favourite bunch of politically correct 'left wingers', are busy going through the first spasm of their eventual collapse as a mainstream religious organisation ...... when this week seven Anglican priests, and 300 lay members from six Essex and East London congregations have started the process to join a new section of the Roman Catholic Church (known as the 'Ordinariate').
Three former Anglican bishops have been appointed to lead the Ordinariate, which allows Anglicans opposed to developments including women bishops, gay clergy and same-sex blessings etc etc to convert to Rome, while maintaining some of their traditions. As you might expect the CofE is downplaying these movements with one vicar saying "....it is a small group of people. The Church of England remains the church for everyone."
Meanwhile 'back at the ranch', the 'wimmin' and homosexual brigade, who have pushed so hard to create the break up, are preparing to use a a pointy stick to provoke as many traditionalists as possible at the next Meeting of Primates, which will take place, rather oddly, in Catholic Ireland from Jan 25 to 31, 2011 in Dublin.
The traditionalists (i.e. Christians who believe the Bible has something to do with this), are led in large by the 'Global South' group of Archbishops (an African and South American grouping, who represent the vast majority of the communions membership), have stated that they were nonplussed that their suggestions did not influence the agenda for this meeting .... which is a bad sign. In 2003 the Archbishop of Nigeria was the first to object to participating in a Eucharistic service with the US Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold.
Dr. Williams apparently tried to prevail on Archbishop Akinola to relent to his objections, but failed, and since that event, successive meetings of Primates have seen diminution's in the time spent in worship, as more and more primates absented themselves from any group 'Eucharist', as they could not apparently bring themselves to worship with those with whom there were not in 'fellowship'. By the 2009 meeting in Alexandria, no attempt was made to hold a corporate Eucharist for all the primates, and no group photo was taken ...... so expect more bad blood in Dublin (especially as the meeting was originally slated for South America).
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Meanwhile 'back at the ranch', the 'wimmin' and homosexual brigade, who have pushed so hard to create the break up, are preparing to use a a pointy stick to provoke as many traditionalists as possible at the next Meeting of Primates, which will take place, rather oddly, in Catholic Ireland from Jan 25 to 31, 2011 in Dublin.
The traditionalists (i.e. Christians who believe the Bible has something to do with this), are led in large by the 'Global South' group of Archbishops (an African and South American grouping, who represent the vast majority of the communions membership), have stated that they were nonplussed that their suggestions did not influence the agenda for this meeting .... which is a bad sign. In 2003 the Archbishop of Nigeria was the first to object to participating in a Eucharistic service with the US Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold.
Dr. Williams apparently tried to prevail on Archbishop Akinola to relent to his objections, but failed, and since that event, successive meetings of Primates have seen diminution's in the time spent in worship, as more and more primates absented themselves from any group 'Eucharist', as they could not apparently bring themselves to worship with those with whom there were not in 'fellowship'. By the 2009 meeting in Alexandria, no attempt was made to hold a corporate Eucharist for all the primates, and no group photo was taken ...... so expect more bad blood in Dublin (especially as the meeting was originally slated for South America).
