I don't have that much to add, coming late to the party, but growing up I was disillusioned to find that at least one Episcopal priest I...
RIP Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, one of the world's last voices of truth and reason (which means conforming to truth, to reality).
The idea that our rights are God-given is the one part of the American founding myth I believe in. Other than that I'm a Loyalist: God save the...
I refrained from remarking here at first as I am an ecumenical guest. A few thoughts: Bergoglio is trying not only to rebrand the Roman Church -...
@Niblo You can't undo baptism so my guess is no.
@Rexlion, of course the British here can answer this better than I can, as I'm a foreigner who lived in the mother country long ago, but after the...
Not too surprising. My guess is at this point the "nones," "no religion," are mostly still just a fancy way of saying "people who don't go to...
I love Catholic Anglicanism but I realize it's not really Anglicanism. A lot of it, like the independent sacramental movement, is clerical...
@Tiffy, there are honest mistakes. I believed what I wrote. Don't bear false witness against me by accusing me of acting in bad faith, viz., lying.
@Distraught Cat You've schooled or pantsed me as the kids say but you win some, you lose some. Cases and conjugations are a pain but please allow...
@Invictus Keeping in mind my hosts' belief about church services in a tongue not understanded of the people, why I love Church Latin: Latin is:...
@bwallac2335: I'll walk this back a bit. I could co-exist with the Novus Ordo - I didn't and don't go to it - before Jorge "Pope Francis"...
@bwallac2335: The Novus Ordo is an ugly little service compared to the medieval ones. It doesn't do justice to the "Cathodox" beliefs about the...
I've had Catholic girlfriends but didn't meet them through anything religious.
Archbishop Elpidophoros is the supremo of the Greeks in America, who are most of the few Orthodox there; Constantinople's man. The OCA is a...
Eastern churches in Western countries lose most of their people to assimilation in three generations. Western Rite Orthodoxy's a joke; a halfway...
@Tiffy, I know my place as a guest on a Protestant board. It seems to me that "aiming at Anglo-Catholicism or its doctrines" and "aiming at...
Catholic Anglicanism made me. We wanted to be part of the larger church. One of the lost hopes of the '60s was that all the high churches almost...
From a hostile Roman Catholic blog - they want everybody to be Novus Ordo: "In 2019 the OOLW was reported to have 97 priests and 1,850 lay...
@Tiffy, so you're saying that prayer for the dead is acceptable after all?