| Five Anglican bishops leave for Roman Catholic Church |
| Written by Al Webb | ||
| Monday, 20 December 2010 18:31 | ||
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LONDON (RNS) Five bishops have decided to leave the Church of England and join the Roman Catholic Church under the Vatican’s new program to welcome disaffected Anglicans. Under a plan announced last year by the Vatican, Anglicans can ally with the Catholic Church while preserving aspects of their Anglican heritage, including married clergy. The five Anglican bishops were identified as the bishops of Ebbsfleet, Andrew Burnham; of Fulham, John Broadhurst; of Richborough Keith Newton; and two retirees, former bishops of Richborough, Edwin Barnes, and of Ballarat, Australia, David Silk. Burnham denied that the ongoing controversy over women bishops in the Anglican Church was the reason. “Women bishops is a pressing issue,” Burnham told the British Press Association, “but this is a question of whether the Anglican Church is, as it says it is, part of the universal church going back to the time of Jesus, or whether it is going off in its own way and making up its own rules, as we think it is.” Your Responses (1)
Carolyn Weiss
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Baltimore, MD Bishop Burnham speaks for me. The disaffection with the Episcopal church is about the loss of the unifying yet deeply personal liturgy of the 1928 prayerbook and the readings from the King James Bible. I smile when a priest tries to express a theological concept does so by quoting the King James bible, admitting there are the words that best give understanding. Social justice was one of many ends to worship for any given parishioner. Now it is the beginning leaving behind the many other leads to God and life with his Son which strengthens one will in following the justice, righteousness, compassion, humility and a life seeking atonement in all ways). |
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