The Anglican Church of Canada: Rights & Wrongs

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2008/03/04/the-anglican-church-of-canada-rights-wrongs/

[Anglican Mainstream] 3 Mare 2008--…Maybe I’m just a thick Baptist, but can someone explain to me again why, on the basis of Ignatius’s theology, the property does not belong to the local Roman Catholic Bishop, if it does not belong to the congregation? As long as the ACC portrays itself as a modern denomination with a hierarchial structure, there is some kind of legal argument here (even if the moral argument for seizing the property is still weak). But to appeal to the theology of the ancient, undivided Church as the rationale for the ACC’s stance seems to me to be a bit far-fetched. All this talk in Ignatius about being in communion with the bishop is not talk about just any bishop - it is referring to the bishop of the Catholic Church.

Does the modernist hierarchy of the ACC really mean to claim that they alone embody the true Catholic Church in Canada? It would be hard even for the Roman Catholic Church to make that claim, although if any Church would have a reasonable case it surely would be the Roman Catholic Church. (As a Baptist, I can tell you it certainly wouldn’t be the Baptists). But what seems difficult to comprehend is how the ACC can appeal to catholic order when it seems intent on becoming nothing more than just another liberal Protestant denomination …