Thursday, February 22, 2007
Calls to unite Anglicans and Catholics under Pope
According to some Anglicans, YES. From The Times. Andrew has commented on this in his post.
5 Reasons why I feel the Anglicans should reunite with Rome:
- First, I am convinced that The Lord's will for His Church is that it should be one (John 13:34-35, John 17:11, John 22-23). Historically, the Catholic influences and traditions within Anglicanism has always sought to bear witness to that truth; from that tradition they have come.
- Second, the distance between official Anglicanism and what might be termed historical faith and order have grown very rapidly. Increasingly unorthodox belief and practice has crept in, so that both Catholic and Protestant ways of understanding the Gospel have become incongruent with it.
- Third, the present disarray of Anglicanism is, in itself, clear evidence of the need for a defined focus of authority in the life of the Church on earth, and that such a magisterium is to be found in the person of Peter and his successors in the Holy See; The Pope.
- Fourth, the ordination of female priests and Homosexual Clergy and the blessings of same-sex unions- such an act is sinful and has “consequences”; wrath of God (Romans 1:18-32, Leviticus 20:13, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10).
- Fifth, I thank God for the good and beauty that can be found in the Anglican tradition. As Anglicanism continues to decay around the world, I believe that it can best and “most safely be preserved within the household of the Roman Catholic Church and form a Single Eucharistic Community” (Archbishop John Hepworth, the Anglican Communion’s highest-ranking cleric. He is a key personnel in leading the Anglican Church in the USA to reunification with Rome.)
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