Wednesday, July 09, 2008

The long Anglican goodbye to Rome

http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&id=04C8C39A-5056-8960-32714D7BA98832F4

[America The National Catholic Weekly] 9 Jul 2008--The Vatican’s reaction to the Church of England’s historic decision to press ahead with the consecration of women as bishops without compromise measures was pretty much as expected.

"Such a decision signifies a breaking away from the apostolic tradition maintained by all of the churches since the first millennium and is a further obstacle for reconciliation between the Catholic church and the Church of England,” said Walter Kasper, head of the Vatican’s Christian Unity council, who is due to speak at the Lambeth Conference later this month.

His reference to the “apostolic tradition maintained by all of the Churches since the first millennium” is calculated. Year after year, Cardinal Kasper comes to the UK to give more or less the same speech, in which he challenges the Church of England to decide whether it is “a church of the first millennium” or “a church of the Reformation”.

To which Anglicans answer: “Why not both?”

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