Catholics: Why are you concerned whether Anglican Orders are valid?

[GKC]

Once you open that motley can…there’s just no closing it.

Don’t I know it.

 

[Stat_Crux]

There’s been a recent development in the discussion of Anglican orders incidentially.

Hardly a “development”. The personal opinions of one Cardinal do not make for a change in the Church’s Doctrine of the Sacrament of Holy Orders.

 

[GKC]

Hardly a “development”. The personal opinions of one Cardinal do not make for a change in the Church’s Doctrine of the Sacrament of Holy Orders.

A flutter, at most.

 

[Stat_Crux]

A flutter, at most.

True.

…Unless of course we get a vague document coming out of the next Synod on “Youth & Discernment” in which people insist on constructing interpretations to suggest a change in the doctrine of Holy Orders because of vague footnotes being read in isolation from the other 2,000 years of consistent teaching, tradition and doctrine.

 

[GKC]

True.

…Unless of course we get a vague document coming out of the next Synod on “Youth & Discernment” in which people insist on constructing interpretations to suggest a change in the doctrine of Holy Orders because of vague footnotes being read in isolation from the other 2,000 years of consistent teaching, tradition and doctrine.

I’m not expecting such an eventuality, myself.

 

[Faithdancer]

re: the original post

I really don’t concern myself with it much. I’m a postulant for Anglican Orders, not Roman Catholic Orders.

 

[SteveLy]

No problem. Thank you for your contributions and your take on things as a Catholic in the Ordinariate. It’s sad that this lashing out happens sometimes, but if we do our due diligence, it helps to get past the cognitive dissonance you described.

I just wanted to make one brief comment on your final post in the previous thread. You said, "taking this all into consideration, we may be able to more easily accept Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio’s statement that ‘something happened’ "

I think one thing that was odd about his comments is that he even suggested that people are saying “nothing happened”. That’s never been the position of the Church, as evidenced by the Bishops of England and Wales statement on the matter several years ago, that I’ll post here:

I think many people, myself included, just found it odd he’d be saying such a thing. Hopefully, as Dr. Peters pointed out, all he’s talking about is simply that he thinks we need to make it easier to document cases like Bishop Leonard’s.

Good point. Thx.