Episcopal Presiding Bishop Michael Curry to preach at Henry and Meghan's Wedding

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I did not know that holy orders (valid or otherwise) confer wisdom. Is that taught in the Catechism of the Catholic Church?
 
Michael Curry is the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. He is a primate of the Anglican Communion and is well known to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. I find your comment about not wanting him to embarrass us as Americans troubling. Would you be similarly concerned if Wilton Gregory were to preach at Westminster Cathedral? Might he embarrass us as Americans?
 
QwertyGirl said:
I don’t think the family is as fragile as you think it is. Also, what you call disordered sex has been around since the beginning of time.
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Disorderd sex was around, but a good number of people at least knew it was disordered. If you don’t even know it is disorder how will you stop? And yes, families or the people (especially children) in them are that fragile. Anyone paying attention to their fellow man in Western culture knows how much free sex has hurt people’s spirit.
 
I don’t think it’s possible for a bishop of any denomination to embarrass America more than our current head of state. No worries.
 
Usbek_de_Perse said:
Michael Curry is the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. He is a primate of the Anglican Communion and is well known to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. I find your comment about not wanting him to embarrass us as Americans troubling. Would you be similarly concerned if Wilton Gregory were to preach at Westminster Cathedral? Might he embarrass us as Americans?
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No, I would not be concerned because it would not be for a Royal Wedding. My concern has NOTHING to with religion, politics, etc. It has to do with a non-royal subject preaching at a Royal wedding.

Perhaps, I’m old fashioned in some ways, but I feel that only a Royal Subject (not necessary a British subject) should be preaching at a Royal Wedding.

God bless
 
I’m very proud of my Primate. Bishop Michael Curry spoke love and the fire of God to save us all. He was wonderful.
 
Yes, it was a stirring homily! The monarchy, especially the older generation, are often stereotyped as stodgy, stiff upper lip, and all that. Bishop Curry’s impassioned remarks were a breath of fresh air, and I appreciated his shout out to Teilhard de Chardin, too!
 
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I appreciated his shout out to Teilhard de Chardin, too!
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Yes! He wove Teilhard in so beautifully. It was difficult to see how people responded, but I know there were smiles and bright eyes in engagement. He brought the love of God into the ceremony.
 
I consider TEC to be a flaming disaster, in sum and in detail, but as I rather anticipated, Bishop Curry preached well. Indeed, he did slightly better than I do, as lector.
 
ComplineSanFran said:
I’m very proud of my Primate. Bishop Michael Curry spoke love and the fire of God to save us all. He was wonderful.
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It was amusing to hear my British husband say he was “close to” (his words) fire and brimstone though. I thought, dude, you have NEVER been to a real American Baptist church. Clearly. 😆😆😆

I thought he did an amazing job.
 
The CAF forum equivalent of Godwin’s law?

Homosexuality and abortion. Pops up like dandelions everywhere.

Anyway I wish the newlyweds the best.
 
ComplineSanFran said:
I’m very proud of my Primate. Bishop Michael Curry spoke love and the fire of God to save us all. He was wonderful.
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He spoke the real message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It encapsulated what the early church was and what it was meant to do and continue to do through the centuries. How different our world would be if we all had been faithful to the central message of Jesus.
 
We don’t know that for certain. We know she was previously married, we don’t know whether there’s been an annulment or whether it was a sacramental marriage, etc. We know she has recently been baptized. The fact we don’t know details, I would hope that the archbishop followed the canonical process, and we should not jump to conclusions.
 
An honest question. Would you accept an Anglican annulment tribunals’s decision if they annulled her previous marriage?

I honestly sometimes wonder with regards to this thinking that “Protestants divorce and remarry” if a Catholic would accept a similar way of declaring a nullity of marriage?

Regards
 
I loved his descriptions of love as sacrificial and redemptive. He didn’t talk about mushy stuff, feelings, the trappings of romance. He talked about Divine love. Awesome!

❤️ ❤️ ❤️
 
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