differance between catholic & Episcopal church

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what’s EEM mean?

what’s “praxis”?

what’s GKC?!

I DONT KNOW YOUR LINGO I’M COMING FROM UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM.
 
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Re: differance between catholic & Episcopal church
what’s EEM mean?

what’s “praxis”?

what’s GKC?!

I DONT KNOW YOUR LINGO I’M COMING FROM UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM

EEM= Extraordinary Eucharistic Minister, I think. Meaning someone who is not an ordained priest who helps to administer communion.

praxis-- just substitute the word “practice.” Don’t know if that’s exactly right, but it seems to work…

GKC = GK Chesterton, who is a really opinionated and fun writer.
 
dcdoss said:
Hi could someone please advise what the differance between catholic church and the episcopl church is
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Except among the strictest Anglicans, the main differences are in moral theology.

We can argue faith theology til the cows come home, but the differences that affect folks daily lives are in moral theology.
 
jonkarl said:
Anbar
Re: differance between catholic & Episcopal church
what’s EEM mean?

what’s “praxis”?

what’s GKC?!

I DONT KNOW YOUR LINGO I’M COMING FROM UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM

EEM= Extraordinary Eucharistic Minister, I think. Meaning someone who is not an ordained priest who helps to administer communion.

praxis-- just substitute the word “practice.” Don’t know if that’s exactly right, but it seems to work…

GKC = GK Chesterton, who is a really opinionated and fun writer.
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Yep. That’s me. Just check my posts on the board.

Oh. Wait. You meant the writer who passed away in 1936, I bet.

One of my main collecting manias, Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Hence my board name.

GKC
 
I was thinking of changing my name to JRRT 😛 or FH
GKC said:
Yep. That’s me. Just check my posts on the board.

Oh. Wait. You meant the writer who passed away in 1936, I bet.

One of my main collecting manias, Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Hence my board name.

GKC
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For the last time, stop picking on Frank. :pThe man was a jack of all trades and a brilliant writer! I love his books. I love Tolkien, too. Be nice! You’re just prejudiced toward anyone British. You’re a hopeless Anglophile :p…If Frank Herbert spoke with a Bill Buckley accent you’d be president of his fan club 😃
GKC said:
Make it JRRT. Better writer.

GKC
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The differences to me are) the size of the conregations-RC Churches are large while Episcopal Churches usually average around 400 or so souls

b) the role of women in the Episcopal Church up to the Presiding Bishop and this is problematical for some-they do not buy the Pope’s reason “The Apostles were male” -Mary Magdalene and Salome and other leaders of the early Church were female-it is a big issue and is causing a schism in the ECUSA

c) the average opinion of the average Episcopalean is that Christ is present in the Eucharist-they do not concern themselves with trans versus con substantiation

d) the Blessed Virgin is often referred to as St. Mary -but they also refer to Her as the “Theotokos” as the Orthodox do

e) the Pope is honored but not considered the leader of the Church nor infallible

f) no graven images-no statues nor the Crucifix

As a RC I have been attending an Episcopal Church -it is nice but is fraying around the edges the Anglican versus Episcopalean divide is taking its toll - there are a large number of disaffected Catholics in the Episcopal Church

yes they have no issue with birth control but then most RC ignore that as well
 
All true for the most part, except the crucifix is often present in Anglo-Catholic parishes and even some other broad church parishes I’ve seen. The main difference between the Catholic and Episcopal Church is the moral theology and role of women, as you said. Morals cover a LOT of ground! Whether it’s the gay agenda, ordaining women, ordaining openly-active homosexuals, marrying homosexuals, affirming divorce and remarriage, the attitude about sin, in vitro, being pro-abortion, science ethics, birth control, life/death issues, you name it, TEC is far far from the Catholic Church. BTW, the Episcopal Church hasn’t gone by ECUSA for a while now, it’s TEC…
cmodrmac said:
The differences to me are) the size of the conregations-RC Churches are large while Episcopal Churches usually average around 400 or so souls

b) the role of women in the Episcopal Church up to the Presiding Bishop and this is problematical for some-they do not buy the Pope’s reason “The Apostles were male” -Mary Magdalene and Salome and other leaders of the early Church were female-it is a big issue and is causing a schism in the ECUSA

c) the average opinion of the average Episcopalean is that Christ is present in the Eucharist-they do not concern themselves with trans versus con substantiation

d) the Blessed Virgin is often referred to as St. Mary -but they also refer to Her as the “Theotokos” as the Orthodox do

e) the Pope is honored but not considered the leader of the Church nor infallible

f) no graven images-no statues nor the Crucifix

As a RC I have been attending an Episcopal Church -it is nice but is fraying around the edges the Anglican versus Episcopalean divide is taking its toll - there are a large number of disaffected Catholics in the Episcopal Church

yes they have no issue with birth control but then most RC ignore that as well
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gurneyhalleck1 said:
All true for the most part, except the crucifix is often present in Anglo-Catholic parishes and even some other broad church parishes I’ve seen. The main difference between the Catholic and Episcopal Church is the moral theology and role of women, as you said. Morals cover a LOT of ground! Whether it’s the gay agenda, ordaining women, ordaining openly-active homosexuals, marrying homosexuals, affirming divorce and remarriage, the attitude about sin, in vitro, being pro-abortion, science ethics, birth control, life/death issues, you name it, TEC is far far from the Catholic Church.
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That’s why we’re Episcopalians! 🙂
 
Yep, bloody well good show. It’s nice to be honest that you both don’t follow Christian morality. Something to be lauded indeed. Gay marriage, abortion, no theology, come-as-you-are and leave-as-you-are with no inner change, twisted ethics, no faithfulness to the Scriptures, merger of non-Christian worship and praxis with Episcopalian ones, looking Catholic but living out and believing little or none of it, having no standards of dogma or desire to be conformed to Christ, yep, you’re right, good show! :rolleyes:
anode said:
Good show, Game.
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It is not fair that the argument is being made that Episcopalians and Anglicans don’t believe in the True Presence because its not the Communion’s “official doctrine.” This is true simply because there is no “official doctrine.” Never have I met an Anglican who did not believe in the True Presence. We reject the idea of one authority having the power to dictate doctrine, yet reserve certain documents of Catholic faith to keep us in the light of Truth, such as the Nicene and Apostolic Creeds.

And that article is very true in many respects. The Anglican Communion has come from the same route as the RCC and the Orthodox Churches. It recognizes Rome as her Mother Church, as “Ecclesia Anglicana” was actually the Church established in England by Roman Catholic missionary St Augustine of Canterbury. Though Henry VIII broke away from Papal Authority, the church established by Roman missionaries was not replaced, but continued by the Bishops who has been there before, reserving apostolic succession. As High Church Anglicans assert today, we are simply another branch of the One Holy Catholic Church, alongside Rome and the Eastern Churches.

We assert that we keep Catholic Theology and Faith, yet have adopted Protestant beliefs on Church polity and governance (earthly things protestant, holy things Catholic).

REA

Catholic, yet Reformed. Via Media.
 
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