Episcopal priests face dismissal

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Watertown-AP, Apr. 18, 2005 Updated 7:55 AM) _ Six Connecticut Episcopal priests who face removal in a dispute over their opposition to the election of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire have agreed to meet today with the bishop threatening to defrock them.

The meeting is set for today.

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Hey, we could always use some good priests on this side of the Tiber;) .
 
Soooo, six priests are going to get kicked out of a morally defunct, doctrinally empty church because they stand up for some vestige of Christian orthodoxy? Where should they send the thank you cards?
 
Who was it that once said where orthodoxy is optional, eventually it will be proscribed?

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Soooo, six priests are going to get kicked out of a morally defunct, doctrinally empty church because they stand up for some vestige of Christian orthodoxy? Where should they send the thank you cards?
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:rotfl: :rotfl: too funny! Honestly I feel bad for my Episcopalian friends. I wish they would see the truth. They are so loyal to the people in their church they don’t realize that what’s left is an empty shell.

Lisa N
 
Hey, we could always use some good priests on this side of the Tiber .
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hmmm maybe we should send them invitations. 😃

Soooo, six priests are going to get kicked out of a morally defunct, doctrinally empty church because they stand up for some vestige of Christian orthodoxy? Where should they send the thank you cards?​

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Scott I don’t know. I need to look it up.​

Lisa it’s a darn shame too. The Episocpal service is beautiful. I had gone a couple times before this Robinson thing and there was just something about it. So for it to go this way really is upsetting.
 
The priests declined to comment while leaving the meeting.

Smith says the priests left the meeting without acknowledging his authority as their bishop, and he says they have placed themselves under threat of what the church calls “inhibition.”

Inhibition would restrict the priests’ ability to celebrate Mass, hear confessions and perform weddings in the Episcopal church.
dang it, I am going to send them invitations to the RC if they do get “inhibition”. They are not saying.
 
I believe this topic was recently discussed in another thread. If I remember correctly, the disciplinary action was being considered because of the priests’ failure to submit to the authority of their bishop, not because of their beliefs. Seems they wanted to be moved from the jurisdiction of one bishop to that of another.
 

I believe this topic was recently discussed in another thread. If I remember correctly, the disciplinary action was being considered because of the priests’ failure to submit to the authority of their bishop, not because of their beliefs.​

Why should they submit to the “authority” of “Bishop” Robinson, who insinuated Jesus was gay, and calls people who run Planned Parenthood “saints”?
 
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Why should they submit to the “authority” of “Bishop” Robinson, who insinuated Jesus was gay, and calls people who run Planned Parenthood “saints”?
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Again, going on memory, aren’t these priests in Pennsylvania and not directly under Robinson? I think their bishop is a Robinson sympathizer, though, and they want to be under a more orthodox one. Imagine, if you will, Catholic parishes in Charlotte, NC, which I’ve heard is a bit liberal and which sits right on the state line, wanting to “secede” and join the more orthodox South Carolina diocese. While I might agree with what these priests are trying to do, I can also see where the organizational disruption could turn into a nightmare. Before I comment further, I’ll try to find the other thread and get more detail on exactly what’s going on and where.
 
c. s. lewis was an episcopal. the fat lady hasn’t hasn’t by any means sung yet. i think, until the end of the universe. i love our new pope. i am a roman catholic by having been hooked. by God ever since i was aware. he is also a very christian theologian.

as for the news, bbc is interesting. australia, i don’t know. it will be interesting if Benedict VII lives 20 years, don’t you think, i hope so
 
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c. s. lewis was an episcopal. the fat lady hasn’t hasn’t by any means sung yet. i think, until the end of the universe. i love our new pope. i am a roman catholic by having been hooked. by God ever since i was aware. he is also a very christian theologian.

as for the news, bbc is interesting. australia, i don’t know. it will be interesting if Benedict VII lives 20 years, don’t you think, i hope so
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I believe Lewis was a High Anglican - which was to say an Anglican Catholic. He was staunchly against women’s ordination, - and no doubt would have been against much of what the Anglican Communion has accepted today. While many Episcopals in the U.S. may have “had enough” with the “bishop” Robinson issue, - too many of them have accepted the Lambeth council positions (particularly birth control) and women’s ordination. U.S. Episcopal are unfortunately not very close to Rome.
 
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I believe Lewis was a High Anglican - which was to say an Anglican Catholic. He was staunchly against women’s ordination, - and no doubt would have been against much of what the Anglican Communion has accepted today. While many Episcopals in the U.S. may have “had enough” with the “bishop” Robinson issue, - too many of them have accepted the Lambeth council positions (particularly birth control) and women’s ordination. U.S. Episcopal are unfortunately not very close to Rome.
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I thnk that CS Lewis would look at today’s Episcopalian Church and declare “What the heck is that monstrosity?”
 
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