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Anglo Catholics unimpressed by the FCA launch meeting

07/07/2009 17:00:00


A selection of posts from Anglo Catholic bloggers who attended the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans launch yesterday.

Fr Ross Northing Today at Westminster....

At times it was patently obvious that views being expressed were barely Anglican and were more akin to a Baptist/Pentecostalist mindset. So if we were thinking that there could be common-cause over things that matter then it is doubtful. Certainly, that is the case from listening to other Anglo-Catholics over coffee and in the corridors this afternoon.

Fr Giles Pinnock: Tripe & Onions at Westminster Central Hall

"For me, who would not in any case be able to sign The Jerusalem Declaration, GAFCON / FCA / ACNA isn’t going to be the answer. The Declaration isn’t all bad, but rests heavily on the Book of Common Prayer 1662 and the 39 Articles of Religion as definitive, and I cannot help but see these documents as part of the fundamental problem of Anglicanism, not the answer."

Fr Edward Tomlinson (Final Thoughts on ‘Be Faithful’) posts a number of reflections along with a message from +Edwin Barnes, formerly Bishop of Richborough:

After all this I cannot see how there can be common cause between Catholics and Evangelicals. We are looking to going home to the Universal Church, in Communion with the Holy Father and half Christendom. They seem to want to perpetuate a sixteenth century accident.

You will, of course, need to click through to read each extract in context.


What I find so sad, it all of this energy being expended on causes which have the potential to devide rather than unite the Church.

I sense an elite forming their own agenda to match their own personal agenda's rather than the need for greater not less unity at this time.

Ernest | 07/07/2009 19:32:47




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