Servorum Dei (Gregory the Great, cited in Ut Unum Sint, 88). This ministry being exercised in collegiality and synodality – a ministry of servus Both Roman Catholics and Anglicans look to The Commission’s work has resulted in sufficient agreement on universal primacy asĪ gift to be shared, for us to propose that such a primacy could be offered and receivedĮven before our churches are in full communion. To do together whatever we can, but also to be together all that ourĦ0. Mutual accountability in their exercise of oversight. Roman Catholic bishops should find ways of cooperating and developing relationships of The sake of koinonia and a united Christian witness to the world, Anglican and Theologicalĭialogue must continue at all levels in the churches, but is not of itself sufficient. In the light of our agreement the Commission believes our twoĬommunions should make more visible the koinonia we already have. However, there is no turning back in our journey towards fullĮcclesial communion. Anglicans and Roman Catholics are already facing these issues but their resolution Renewed Collegiality: Making Visible our Existing Communionĥ8. Listen to what this document goes on to say. Visible Unity is Definately on the Agenda But even if you can’t see that or agree to that, take note that all kinds of diverse traditions are now being kind of melded and compromised together to form something that would cause a thinking person to realise that at any rate, the Anglicans could not have been consistently walking in truth until now. I hope people can see that all of this stuff represents a departure from the simplicity of faith in Jesus Christ outlined in the New Testament. What is clear to me is that these organisations are populated with religious politicians whose love for the truth must become secondary to their political ambitions (I do not mean they are PERSONALLY ambitious necessarily, but they have political ambitions for church unity at any reasonable price). The Roman Catholic position on divorce and remarriage is also at odds with that of the Anglican church and pretty much all other major denominations. How will agreement be forged on issues like this? The Anglican church is more liberal than the Roman Catholic church, at least officially – by which I mean just about anything goes in the Anglican church. Where is the proof that the living Jesus Christ is the head of either of these church denominations?Īnglicans want to accept and in some places do accept homosexual priests and bishops, married priests and bishops, while Roman Catholics officially accept no such thing – though it is well known by now that their “priesthood” is full of child molesters and homosexual offenders. How can both the Queen and the Pope be heads? Thats interesting. Anglicans recognise the unbelieving Queen Elizabeth, sworn as she is at her coronation to uphold protestant Christianity and to govern Christianly, as the “head of the Anglican church”. It is not as if the Anglican system and organisation is not also fraught with contradictions both internally and with Rome. Be that as it may, Anglicans seem happy enough to forge some kind of political and religious union with Rome. The crazy thing is that Roman Catholics who were around before Vatican II realise that the things the recent popes have been doing go right against historical Catholic doctrine. Presumably the pope is then “authority given by God” which we should see as a blessing. So we can see that the Anglicans have agreed in principal that all their bishops need to submit to the oversight of the pope.
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