Comments on: Where should traditionalist Anglicans go?

By: Fr. Michael

Fr. Michael — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:23:09 +0000

i would advocate Western Rite Orthodoxy as the place for Church of England people to go. If there isn’t a parish near you – then contact me and we’ll find a way of building a mission. Go to our website for existing services and email address/phone. Don’t worry about what others say about England in the past. Take action for yourself now.
Western Rite Orthodoxy – which is very friendly to former Anglicans is also available in Canada, Australia, the USA and New Zealand.

By: The young fogey

The young fogey — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:07:21 +0000

In England 20 years ago it was easier than in the States to find high churchmanship at RC churches if you were looking for it. 20 years before Pope Benedict there was the Brompton Oratory.

By: Eric Sammons

Eric Sammons — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:25:45 +0000

I feel a deep sympathy for friends like yours. We all know that liberal silliness can be quite extreme in many Catholic parishes (especially in England), making them quite doubly unattractive to Anglo-Catholics: they would get the liturgical and pedagogical blandness of much of modern Catholicism along with the difficult doctrines such as papal infallibility.

That is why I never understand the desire to become more “relevant” in our worship or teaching. It attracts no one and repels the best sort of people.

By: The young fogey

The young fogey — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:02:36 +0000

Style/grammar cop: ‘nor Protestant enough…’

By: The young fogey

The young fogey — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:52:00 +0000

Correction: ‘let alone give up more or less…’

By: The young fogey

The young fogey — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:50:41 +0000

Well done.

I have some friends in this bind as they, a married couple, each Episcopalian for about 30 years, face the last straw of gay marriage etc. They’re quintessential Anglicans, mannerly with good taste in liturgics etc. but not Catholic about the Eucharist or infallibility but not Protestant enough to give up a claim to apostolic succession and join theological neighbour the Missouri Synod Lutherans let along give up more or less traditional liturgy and go PCA Presbyterian or American evangelical.

Their best bet for now is the new conservative ex-Episcopal church forming and hoping to be admitted to the Anglican Communion.

The issues you bring up are among those why I don’t proselytise. Also, don’t spit from the fountain from which you’ve drunk. Everything Thomas Day has written about RCs in English-speaking countries is true. And the local liberal silliness in RC churches, no different really in belief from what conservative Anglicans are running from.

My old Anglo-Catholic movement has no Anglican future.

In England where most ACs are would-be RCs anyway the future as a culture obviously is as RC national parishes (like the Anglican Use in America but actually less Anglican, less Prayer Book). More troops on the front of Pope Benedict’s Catholic revival.