Anglicanism and obedience
This article on the ordination of women in the Anglican Church will interest my Episcopalian friends. I found it interesting because it echoes something I had just been mulling the other day, specifically, in the last paragraph, Mirus writes, "In stark contrast, it has often been said that those who wish to feel religious without surrendering their minds and wills to God inevitably become Anglicans or Episcopalians." (The dissenting opinion already springing to mind in at least one of my readers is duly noted.)
When I was younger I went to school with a girl who was also in the church of Christ. I felt completely inferior to her, because she was the sort of girl of whom teachers Approved because she was Bright, unlike losers like me. Anyway, I found out the other day that she had become Episcopalian, and for some reason this bothered me. I couldn't put my finger on why, until I realized that it was another case of my still not being on par with her, because she had left the CoC too, and therefore is, presumably, still Bright and Intellectual.
Then I realized: No, she isn't. A person leaves the CoC for only three reasons: They don't care about God; or they are convicted of another church's being the true church (that was my reason for becoming Catholic); or they want to be religious without having to give up beliefs or practices they prefer to continue. That last reason is precisely why this particular girl would have become Episcopalian. Now, instead of feeling inferior to her, I realize I feel somewhat sorry for her: picking one's religion based on what one prefers to believe is really nothing more than self-worship, and is, I think, living one's life in self-delusion.
Labels: ecusa
Pope Benedict-love
"Pope Benedict may have been chosen to provide continuity for the core beliefs of John Paul, but in his first three months in office he has shaped a style that is all his own. He has enjoyed no honeymoon from dissident theologians. Father Thomas Reese, the U.S. Jesuit whose dismissal from the editorship of the Jesuit journal America magazine was said to have been at the command of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger shortly before the latter's election, has attacked the new pope as the irreconcilable enemy of modernity."
He says that like it's a bad thing.
Labels: modernism, pope benedict
