tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post3133190037037966759..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: The Anglicans are dumping the Common Ground: Welby on AbortionFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-21371833598801732192017-12-30T21:35:19.010+00:002017-12-30T21:35:19.010+00:00The amazing thing to me is that the Anglican churc...The amazing thing to me is that the Anglican church, Catholic non-papal, protestant, other, managed to hold together a reasonably common body of theology and moral teaching for almost four centuries before stating to fall apart in the 1930s. True, there were attempts, Bl. Newman comes to mind, to regularize and build on it but unfortunately too late. By now, one would think that serious pueblosw@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04955678254129002919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-61830630382700048782017-12-15T10:44:46.811+00:002017-12-15T10:44:46.811+00:00One day in 1960:
Catholic: Yeah, there's heap...One day in 1960:<br /><br />Catholic: Yeah, there's heaps we agree on, like, err, no woman priests - or bishops.<br /><br />Anglican: Well of course we agree on that. It's not like you're the Unam Sanctam, and we're some benighted sect, making it up as we go along. The Church of England and the Church of Rome are two branches of the Universal Catholic Church. We both take as our Grant Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11381331872077276383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-79024238871063268022017-12-14T23:12:02.877+00:002017-12-14T23:12:02.877+00:00Nicholas Bellord wrote:
"I suspect ARCIC wil...Nicholas Bellord wrote:<br /><br />"I suspect ARCIC will continue as it provides trips abroad and free lunches for those involved. Perhaps keeps them out of mischief?"<br /><br />Fr. Ian Kerr (the biographer of Cardinal Newman) wrote an archly sarcastic article to that effect, published in <i> The Catholic Herald </i> in 1999, just after the production of the ARCIC agreed statement &William Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09043433059401608468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-6498027555299503722017-12-14T18:55:50.116+00:002017-12-14T18:55:50.116+00:00Like two cruisers engaged in battle, both sides in...Like two cruisers engaged in battle, both sides in ARCIC must have struggled mightily to hit moving and maneuvering targets through heavy fog and smoke. Did anybody actually think it would lead to corporate re-union? Did both sides even want that?KaeseEshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07163030641791132729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-7246629963707967132017-12-14T18:17:37.832+00:002017-12-14T18:17:37.832+00:00In fairness, you really ought to quote Welby's...In fairness, you really ought to quote Welby's words in full, so that one can see exactly what views he is talking about. He actually said that it was “certainly not held within the Anglican Communion, that there are no circumstances in which abortion is right at all, under any circumstances whatsoever …". As far as I recall, that question was not asked of Jacob Rees-Mogg: he was asked Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16010105719301587195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-81047392149190043622017-12-14T17:59:59.033+00:002017-12-14T17:59:59.033+00:00As CS Lewis admitted, it's like asking a man t...As CS Lewis admitted, it's like asking a man to agree with a debating society.Grant Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11381331872077276383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-61373776136672774332017-12-14T16:29:01.862+00:002017-12-14T16:29:01.862+00:00'Ecumenism' has been about as effective in...'Ecumenism' has been about as effective in restoring unity between the denominations, as modernised liturgy in building up the faith of the people. But who will admit it?Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01824005176362146901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-59096965510927116842017-12-14T15:13:06.394+00:002017-12-14T15:13:06.394+00:00Any "common ground" on issues of moralit...Any "common ground" on issues of morality began whittling away at the 1930 Lambeth Conference, if not before and has been ever since. There is no "common ground" between the different factions within Anglicanism and they keep moving further and further apart. <br /><br />The only reason Paul VI could speak of any "common ground" was due to his total ignorance of Deacon Augustinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03549825303646357455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-4463382559446344862017-12-14T14:58:19.472+00:002017-12-14T14:58:19.472+00:00And Welby cannot make up his mind about sodomy.
I...And Welby cannot make up his mind about sodomy.<br /><br />I suspect ARCIC will continue as it provides trips abroad and free lunches for those involved. Perhaps keeps them out of mischief?Nicolas Bellordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08063019108964247676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-35861279590239956502017-12-14T14:57:37.527+00:002017-12-14T14:57:37.527+00:00And Welby cannot make up his mind about sodomy.
I...And Welby cannot make up his mind about sodomy.<br /><br />I suspect ARCIC will continue as it provides trips abroad and free lunches for those involved. Perhaps keeps them out of mischief?Nicolas Bellordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08063019108964247676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-60646822218989267962017-12-14T12:32:01.158+00:002017-12-14T12:32:01.158+00:00Reuters on Williams: "The archbishop said tha...Reuters on Williams: "The archbishop said that when the Abortion Act was passed in 1967, it was never meant to usher in a period of “easy abortion”, but to provide an option for women in extreme cases." Q.E.I?DMGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06206797202576000858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-86909863923312272802017-12-14T11:44:45.992+00:002017-12-14T11:44:45.992+00:00How much common ground was there in the 1960s, or ...How much common ground was there in the 1960s, or at any time, between Evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics or any other non-Evangelicals in the Church of England? How much dialogue has there been between these different groups within the Church of England? And how do you dialogue with an organisation that contains such a wide variety of views on theological topics? I would suggest that dialogue Highland Cathedralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07519428794618769856noreply@blogger.com