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IIRC, the Anglican Church of Canada voted last summer to not celebrate homosexual unions.
 
Then the answer sought is with respect to the Anglican Church of Canada. Should be possible to discern that. As to what is notional and what is practiced.
 
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GKMotley said:
Which Anglican Church are you thinking of?
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How many different Anglican Churches are there? Does the Anglican Church believe in the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church? If so, shouldn’t there be one Anglican Church? And one moral teaching? Otherwise something that is morally wrong in Canada could be morally right in the USA? Should the political border of a country determine what is morally right and what is morally wrong?
 
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AlNg said:
How many different Anglican Churches are there?
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There are 45 Anglican churches in the Communion, 40 of which are independent. There are plenty more outside the Communion.
AlNg said:
Does the Anglican Church believe …
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There is no Anglican Church. There are 45 etc etc.
AlNg said:
Does the Anglican Church believe in the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church? If so, shouldn’t there be one Anglican Church?
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Yes, Anglicans do believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church, and they believe they are part of it. They do not believe all the Anglican churches should be united in the sense of having someone as the supreme head; they believe in working towards bringing all churches into communion.
AlNg said:
And one moral teaching?
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What is true of Anglicans is true of Christians generally: there are disagreements.
 
There is no singular Anglican Church. There are a number of Anglican Churches. As mentioned before. How the Anglican Churches structure themselves is up to them. How they define what their moral position might be is similarly consistent with a group of self-governing, independent Churches who ultimately had their origin in the Church of England. The Anglican Communion, those 38-40 independent, self-governing Anglican Churches in communion with the CoE/Archbishop of Canterbury, some of whom are in impaired communion with each other, can give you the idea. Maybe.

To get an idea what a given Anglican Church might hold on a given topic, inquiry is best made to the Church in question.
 
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Ah, I don’t waste much time on taxes these days. My financial affairs are so unencumbered with complexity that I can largely leave them in the hands of Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs to sort out. Or unencumbered with money, perhaps.
 
I got complications. Freedom isn’t free.

A few days working now, a few days in Mar/Apr.
 
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I’m no expert on the area, but I’ll post something.

Later. Now it’s fast in and out, between profit and loss figures.

Anyone wanting to beat me to it, go ahead.
 
GKMotley said:
Anyone wanting to beat me to it, go ahead.
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I can offer some of my own observations.
Iustinus1 said:
What is the view of the Apocrypha or Deuterocanonical Books in Anglicanism?
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Anglicans generally share views similar to other Protestants, in that Apocryphal texts are not understood as inspired in the same way as canonical books of the Bible. This is discussed in Article 6 of the Thirty-Nine Articles.

At the same time, Anglicans do read the Apocrypha, privately and liturgically (including in our lectionary). They were translated and included as part of the KJV (though appended separately in the Apocrypha section). A major impetus for the translation of Apocryphal books for the ESV was due to its use by evangelical Anglicans. Outside of this, Anglicans have typically always esteemed ancient Christian texts outside the canon.

The Anglican Apocrypha comprises the following texts (per Article 6):

The Third Book of Esdras
The Fourth Book of Esdras
The Book of Tobias
The Book of Judith
The rest of the Book of Esther
The Book of Wisdom
Jesus the Son of Sirach
Baruch the Prophet
The Song of the Three Children
The Story of Susanna
Of Bel and the Dragon
The Prayer of Manasses
The First Book of Maccabees
The Second Book of Maccabees

Note that the Anglican Apocrypha includes both Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canonical texts.
 
A salute to the “generally”. The list is what I would have posted.

Comments will follow after I’ve wrestled the figures into submission and had a beer. Maybe.
 
I’ve always wonder, why Catholics leave the only Church which Christ instituted for one some person many years afterwards founded ?

I understand that being a faithful Catholic (and Christian) is not easy, but that is precisely why it is so valuable.

Please comment, if you want to share.
 
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