From Christian Telegraph:
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II has twice written to support an emergent group of conservative Anglicans that rejects the ultra-liberal and sexually permissive direction of the Church of England, reports Hilary White, LifeSiteNews.com. The Queen recently wrote to the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) that she “understood their concerns” and “understands the commitment to the Anglican Church” and that she wished them well on the day of their official launch on Monday.
FCA leaders had written to the Queen to assure her of their loyalty to the Church of England. Palace spokesmen said that the letters did not constitute an official endorsement of the FCA. The FCA is an alliance of evangelical and Anglo-Catholic parishes in Britain and Ireland whose formation was precipitated in part by the acceptance of homosexuality by segments of the Anglican leadership in the developed world.
She is, after all, the official head of the Church of the England and thus of world Anglicanism. (Could someone explain that ecclesiology? I know the historical answer, of course, but what is the theological understanding of why the secular ruler exercises ecclesiastical rule?)
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