Anglicans vote to soften anti-Catholic texts

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Ireland’s Anglican bishops are voting this weekend on whether to insert a declaration in the Book of Common Prayer aimed at clarifying perceived anti-Catholic language in the Church’s historic doctrinal formulations.
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The Book of Common Prayer contains the Church’s 39 Articles of Religion. Established in 1563, the Articles set out the Church’s teaching on the sacraments, ecclesiology, and its relationship to the Catholic Church. It condemns Catholic Masses as ‘blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits’, the Latin liturgy as ‘repugnant’ and attacks the ‘Romish doctrine’ of purgatory.
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