How so? To me, religion is all about the mystical, supenatural, the unseen. It seems, and correct me if I’m wrong, that you define that as ‘superstitious’. If so, what is religion about for you? I found it, as Davis said, deeply moving.
It seems to me that you can find the Archbishop’s sermon “superstitious…in the realm of magic, and…debased” only if you find Catholicism itself those three things.
God knows what they mean now; thats what makes FoCA’s embrace of them so delightful.
The point is …if prayer to Mary is not Anglican doctrine..why aen’t Anglican mainstream turning on Rowan like they do on Gene.
I should think most theologs nowadays would be able to discern the difference between ‘mariolatry’ and a decent ‘mariology’. If not, the future Church is doomed to superstition.
I’m very happy to caller her ‘Blessed’ – in accord with the Magnificat.
But…what would the rest of the folks at the Easter Vigil think of that?
Billy D …the non-jurors tried to effect a union with orthodoxy..but this fell down over the issue of transubstantiation and the invocation of Saints. The non-jurors represented the highest and best of seventeenth century High churchmen.
I remember seeing Archbishop Laud’s statue at Walsingham Anglican shrine.
So, at the end, that’s ALL you’re about RIW?
Depart with you then, and be no more about us poor benighted “Thinking Anglicans”!
Whatever. I’ll be sure to save a spot for you in the afterlife.
And I thought that it was only the rabid consevos on this site who rubbish the faith of those they don’t agree with.
I don’t hate ANGLICANS ..MOST OF MY FAMILY ARE OF THAT PERSAUSION.
Of course non Catholics may be ” saved through no fault of their own”….but that is if their ignorance is not culpable. That is official Catholic teaching.
By the standards of your friend , the only people in Hell would be well informed Catholics…yet he is almost certainly a Universalist. I shall pray for him.