The Offices of the Catholic church

[GKC]

Though I’m usually a trifle more irenic, this touches on several points I agree with, Apostolicae curae being a special hobby of mine.

GKC

Anglicanus-Catholicus

Lots of reasons!

Papal supremacy. Apostolicae Curae, which most of us still find insulting (not to mention wrong). Mandatory clerical celibacy. The indifferent and irreverent way that Mass is celebrated in most American Catholic churches. Not wanting to give up the great patrimony of Anglican worship and music–seriously, trading the BCP 1928 for the ICEL translation of the Novus Ordo? Trading Stanford, Howells, and Byrd for Marty Haugen, the St Louis Jesuits and Bernadette Farrell?

We believe our faith is already fully Catholic, and can’t be made “more Catholic” by communion with the Roman See. Not that any of us would be opposed to that communion–in fact, we’d all be perfectly happy with mutual recognition of orders and sacraments–but the RCC won’t have anything less than complete submission. No thanks!

 

[Proallen]

Lots of reasons!

Papal supremacy. Apostolicae Curae, which most of us still find insulting (not to mention wrong). Mandatory clerical celibacy. The indifferent and irreverent way that Mass is celebrated in most American Catholic churches. Not wanting to give up the great patrimony of Anglican worship and music–seriously, trading the BCP 1928 for the ICEL translation of the Novus Ordo? Trading Stanford, Howells, and Byrd for Marty Haugen, the St Louis Jesuits and Bernadette Farrell?

We believe our faith is already fully Catholic, and can’t be made “more Catholic” by communion with the Roman See. Not that any of us would be opposed to that communion–in fact, we’d all be perfectly happy with mutual recognition of orders and sacraments–but the RCC won’t have anything less than complete submission. No thanks!

I understand completely and agree with you. I myself am a broad church Anglican who was a cradle Catholic for decades. The deeper I went and the more I learned, the further away from Rome it put me. We have facets of anglo-catholicsm in our parish which is ACNA. Unfortunately most folks believe that all ACNA parishes are more low church than high. That’s not particularly so for us.