Any Anglicans / Episcopalians considering switching to RCC?

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GKC said:
For some, sound teaching is that which arises and progresses from a non-authoritarian polity. Tradition governing how one worships, not what one believes in doing so.
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How true.

Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi. (As you pray, so you believe, so you will live). My experience, apparently like yours, is many Anglicans keep this in the forefront, particularly the Traditionalists. If one is going with the non-authoritarian polity, it is probably a good place to anchor.
 
jschwartz said:
In brief, I’d say that for right wingers, perhaps Rome offers a more welcoming home to support them in their views on sexual politics. But there are also those who found themselves estranged from Rome due to a simultaneous sanctification of right wing sexual politics, and a very sad denigration of the glories of Tradition.
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I don’t know exactly what you include in right wing sexual politics. But I would imagine all of what you include would also be considered Christianity. It would be Christianity as believed and practiced by most Christians at most points in history. To me this is the most important tradition. I would love to be able to attend a more traditional Mass but resting in the sure tradition of Apostolic teaching is far more important.
 
ChurchSoldier said:
How true.

Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi. (As you pray, so you believe, so you will live). My experience, apparently like yours, is many Anglicans keep this in the forefront, particularly the Traditionalists. If one is going with the non-authoritarian polity, it is probably a good place to anchor.
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D’accord
 
GKC said:
You seem to be a good fit for the Affirming Anglican niche, with an emphasis on the Ritualist roots of Anglo-Catholicism, and not so much the doctrinal portion, arising from the Tractarians.
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Affirming Catholicism is one of several organizations I support, as an Anglo-Catholic.
 
I support: Affirming Catholicism

Ecumenical Society of Mary

Society of Our Lady of Walsingham

Society of Catholic Priests

Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament

Society of the Holy Cross

Society of King Charles the Martyr

Liberal Catholic Church

Center for Progressive Christianity

UU Christian Fellowship

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

Pax Christi USA

and several other Anglo-Catholic, ecumenical, and progressive Christian and Catholic groups.
 
jschwartz said:
I support: Affirming Catholicism

Ecumenical Society of Mary

Society of Our Lady of Walsingham

Society of Catholic Priests

Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament

Society of the Holy Cross

Society of King Charles the Martyr

Liberal Catholic Church

Center for Progressive Christianity

UU Christian Fellowship

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

Pax Christi USA

and several other Anglo-Catholic, ecumenical, and progressive Christian and Catholic groups.
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Partially, a laudable list.

Needs culling, but …imagine my surprise.
 
Considered it, and, respectfully and not without regret, declined.
 
masuwerte said:
No thank you.🙂
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What are your reasons?

For me, I was attracted to Anglo-Catholicism, as practiced in NYC at Resurrection, Smokey Mary’s, and St. Thomas, as well as at St. Clement in Philadelphia, by the majestic liturgy and emphasis on order and dignity in worship which I feel is lacking in the Roman Church. Of course, a finely executed EF Mass with a choir and organist, as is done at St. Agnes or St. Ignatius on 37th Street, is sublime, as well. I also found my convictions to be no longer welcome in the Roman Church; my thoughts on accepting LGBT people, ordaining married men and women, not shunning people from communion, and my overall liberal political and theological bent led me to be received into the Episcopal Church. That being said, I find the differences between more traditional Anglo-Catholic brethren and the Roman Church to be minimal. They share the same politics and the theology of the Caroline Divines and the Tractarians/Oxford Movement, which are integral to my faith expression. However, Abp. Williams has been quoted as saying that the Anglican tradition, just as it rests on a tripod of scripture, tradition, and reason, also rests on a tripod of Roman Catholicism, Reformed Christianity, and Religious Liberalism. This is a Latitudinarian/Broad Church sentiment, but as someone who falls on the left wing of Anglo Catholicism (Affirming Catholicism), I resonate with theological liberalism and the Catholic tradition; outside the Anglican Communion, this is seen most in the Liberal Catholic church, which I fellowship with as well (an interfaith, feminist, progressive, archetypically-focused, non-creedal expression of Catholicism).
 
Currently CofE and torn right down the middle considering both Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism. It’s gone on for a long, long time, and I face opposition from my protestant family and friends. Not a fun place to be.
 
JoyToTheWhirled said:
Currently CofE and torn right down the middle considering both Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism. It’s gone on for a long, long time, and I face opposition from my protestant family and friends. Not a fun place to be.
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Not easy is it? There are quite a few Anglicans moving in the direction of Orthodoxy. What draws you to it?

Good luck with your journey.
 
ChurchSoldier said:
Not easy is it? There are quite a few Anglicans moving in the direction of Orthodoxy. What draws you to it?

Good luck with your journey.
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Thank you for you good wishes 🙂 It’s hard to articulate. I think it’s probably the whole ethos of healing and reconciliation. But Rome has things I love too. Swings and roundabouts as we say. I am being called to patience right now, but I think this year is very much a crunch year for this issue.
 
JoyToTheWhirled said:
Thank you for you good wishes 🙂 It’s hard to articulate. I think it’s probably the whole ethos of healing and reconciliation. But Rome has things I love too. Swings and roundabouts as we say. I am being called to patience right now, but I think this year is very much a crunch year for this issue.
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We need folks on both sides committed to reunification of the Catholic Church. Rome and Canterbury together.
 
jschwartz said:
We need folks on both sides committed to reunification of the Catholic Church. Rome and Canterbury together.
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It would be wonderful to have reunification, but I am part of an evangelical parish that is completely opposed to the idea of a sacrament, never mind unification with Rome. I think I must make a decision for my own soul’s sake at some point.
 
JoyToTheWhirled said:
It would be wonderful to have reunification, but I am part of an evangelical parish that is completely opposed to the idea of a sacrament, never mind unification with Rome. I think I must make a decision for my own soul’s sake at some point.
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I’m the one who reminds folk that Anglicanism is motley, but you are in an Anglican parish which totally discounts the idea of any sacrament?
 
GKC said:
I’m the one who reminds folk that Anglicanism is motley, but you are in an Anglican parish which totally discounts the idea of any sacrament?
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Well, as you say, it’s rather difficult to speak for everyone, but my house group barely goes a week without making much of how UNsacramental communion should be. I can’t speak for the vicar, but he is significantly, shall we say, unCatholic.
 
JoyToTheWhirled said:
Well, as you say, it’s rather difficult to speak for everyone, but my house group barely goes a week without making much of how UNsacramental communion should be. I can’t speak for the vicar, but he is significantly, shall we say, unCatholic.
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BULLETIN:

Anglicans more motley than previously thought.

Film at 11.
 
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