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Damian Thompson blogs at some length<\/a> about the rumor that Forward in Faith (yes, that\u2019s yet another sub group of an Anglican sub sub group) are \u2018in discussions\u2019 with Rome about corporate reunion. Is it just me, or is this getting a teeny bit tiresome?<\/div>\n
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Damian has too many precious Anglo Catholic chums. He talks sympathetically about an Anglo Catholic friend who could not become a \u2018Roman\u2019 because of the awful liturgies and architecture in the modern Catholic Church. I\u2019m afraid this is just the sort of Anglo Catholic we don\u2019t want. If he can\u2019t see the big issue of authority in the church, and simply come across with no conditions and without worrying himself about \u2018the right kind of liturgy\u2019 then he hasn\u2019t got a clue yet what it means to be Catholic.<\/div>\n
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Anglo Catholics should grit their teeth and get over it. I love beautiful liturgy, solemn worship and reverence at the Mass as much as anyone, and readers of this blog will know that I\u2019m the first one to lament trendy guitar masses, goofy relevant homilies, politically correct liturgies etc.etc.etc. but the matter of converting to the Catholic faith is simpler and more fundamental and more important than the liturgy. They should remember Newman\u2019s observation that Augustine or Irenaeus, should they visit modern Britain, would visit the ancient churches, and soon find themselves in the tin hut in the bad part of town with the Irish immigrants because there they would find not the prettiest church with the nicest liturgy and the finest music, but there they would find the true church.<\/div>\n
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There is a matter of priorities. Being received into the Church humbly with no conditions is necessary. Fussing over \u2018proper liturgy\u2019 is like humming and hawing over which china teacup to rescue when your house is burning down.<\/div>\n
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Already Rome has given the dis-enchanted Anglicans just about everything they want: They have the offer of their married priests being re-ordained. They have the offer (in the US anyway) of their own Anglican based liturgy. They have the offer (in the US) of their own quasi- independent parishes, and yet the number who have taken up the offer of Anglican Use can be counted on two hands, and the number of former Anglican priests who have come in under the pastoral provision is surprisingly small. Instead, they either quietly compromise with the Anglican-ECUSA heresy or they tootle off and start yet another Anglican schism, then they write me indignant emails saying \u2018We are not a garage church you know\u2026our Archbishop has a degree from Princeton\u2026\u201d Big whoop.<\/div>\n
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As my recent post said, \u201cBe suspicious of anyone who makes a simple matter complicated.\u201d\u00a0The matter is quite simple: If you really understand the claims of the Catholic Church and if you really are called to be a Catholic, then there\u2019s the Tiber. Swim it.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Furthermore, the Catechism says not to is a serious sin.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damian Thompson blogs at some length about the rumor that Forward in Faith (yes, that\u2019s yet another sub group of an Anglican sub sub group) are \u2018in discussions\u2019 with Rome about corporate reunion. Is it just me, or is this getting a teeny bit tiresome? Damian has too many precious Anglo Catholic chums. 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