This is remarkably...hm.
Rowan Williams
, the nominal head of the world Anglican Communion...
Um. Wow.
He laid out a series of questions suggesting that decades of hard-won apparent reconciliation between the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations might have weak foundations.
You mean to tell me that real reconciliation of Anglicans with Catholicism threatens apparent reconciliation...?
He also proposed that a truly universal Christian church might have to be structured more like the Anglican Communion -- with no central authority laying down the law -- than like the Catholic Church, with the pope on his throne.
Isn't the Anglican Communion splintering? And the Catholic Church looking remarkably universal, held together in said universal communion by...um...the Pope "on his throne"?
"Is there a mechanism in the church that has the clear right to determine for all where the limits of Christian identity might be found?" Williams asked. "Is the integrity of the church ultimately dependent on a single identifiable ministry of unity to which all local ministries are accountable?"
Not in Protestantism. And apparently the Archbishop of Canterbury is destroying his own office. Actually, since the Queen is also "nominally" the head of the Church of England, might she have something to say to Williams, who apparently has sold the farm? Of course, this is the same Christian leader who was
all in favor of sharia law in the UK.
"The Catholic Church is responding to the many requests that have been submitted to the Holy See from groups of Anglican clergy and faithful in different parts of the world who wish to enter into full visible communion," Levada said. Levada said "hundreds" of Anglicans around the world have expressed their desire to join the Catholic Church. Among them are 50 Anglican bishops, said Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia of the Congregation for Divine Worship.
Does this sound like a hostile takeover or the clean-up operation after the Titanic hit the iceberg?
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