I today encountered this most unpleasant quote on the Pontifications blog regarding my beloved jurisdiction:
'The REC is in the midst of a ten-year merger process with the Anglican Province of America, a body that joins Anglo-Catholic ritual with a sort of tepid centrist Anglicanism, and whose distinguishing characteristic is that until recently all of its bishops had been divorced-and-remarried at least once.'
For a more accurate and charitable picture of the Anglican Province of America, one of the original Continuing Churches in the USA and the one certainly having the most significant substantiated membership of any Continuing Church, I invite the reader to visit our Provincial website:
www.anglicanprovince.org
I should hardly think that the Catholic and Apostolic Faith of the Creeds, the Fathers, the Undivided Church, the General Councils, the Book of Common Prayer, the Caroline Divines, the Non-Jurors, the Tractarian and Evangelical Revivals, and the whole Ecclesia Anglicana ought to be characterised as 'tepid' and 'centrist.'
Nothing quite draws vitriol like authenticity and success!
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Amen! I took the link for Pontifications off of my blog because of all of the uncharitable things that are said about Anglicanism on it. For someone who has left Anglicanism (Al Kimmel), he sure is concerned about it.
Thank you for your vote of confidence - it would seem to me, generally speaking, that a constant need to justify one's position or change (especially by criticising another's) reveals a certain insecurity or lack of comfort and certitude in one's choice. Surely there is enough error, heresy, and moral corruption within the modern Roman Communion on which to dwell without taking the time and energy to berate a Tradition one has conclusively decided is illegitimate. Good points as always! God bless you.
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