The Roman Catholic Church has announced they're welcoming members of the Anglican Communion wholesale.
Richard Fernandez - The Lighting of the Beacons
If Episcopal social conservatives who flee across the street to St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church and Fish Fry think they won't find progressive thought behind the pulpit and in the pews, they've got another think coming.
I don't think they are so dumb or naive.
It isn't about gay or women priests.
It is about Clown Eucharist and changing the Stations of the Cross for Stations of Millennium Development goals. It is about taking down crosses that adorn the outside of the church so as not to offend the sensibility of passers by. It's not about women priests but women priests who dress in hot pants and biker boots. Priests who profess that they do not believe in the divinity of Jesus but have no doubts about that Mohammad fellow. And whose Bishop does not see a problem with this, but see the whole thing as exciting in it's interfaith possibilities.
What it is about is the frustration of belonging to a church that does not take the religious thing seriously.
I don't especially care what gender or sexual preference my clergy has. I would prefer they not wear hot-pants in the vestry hall.
I can not attend a church that will not take seriously their own history, tradition, rites, or Deity.
Richard Fernandez - The Lighting of the Beacons
Most of those who were expected to take up the Catholic Church’s offer to convert are described as social conservatives who think their community has gone too far toward embracing openly gay bishops and women priests.
If Episcopal social conservatives who flee across the street to St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church and Fish Fry think they won't find progressive thought behind the pulpit and in the pews, they've got another think coming.
I don't think they are so dumb or naive.
It isn't about gay or women priests.
It is about Clown Eucharist and changing the Stations of the Cross for Stations of Millennium Development goals. It is about taking down crosses that adorn the outside of the church so as not to offend the sensibility of passers by. It's not about women priests but women priests who dress in hot pants and biker boots. Priests who profess that they do not believe in the divinity of Jesus but have no doubts about that Mohammad fellow. And whose Bishop does not see a problem with this, but see the whole thing as exciting in it's interfaith possibilities.
What it is about is the frustration of belonging to a church that does not take the religious thing seriously.
I don't especially care what gender or sexual preference my clergy has. I would prefer they not wear hot-pants in the vestry hall.
I can not attend a church that will not take seriously their own history, tradition, rites, or Deity.
