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It's this type of report that hurts me. I know it's true. But I get crapped on for acknowledging it in Continuing circles. We are bad at acknowledging some of the group are wannabe Catholics from some mythical age where Catholics were pure.I was teaching catechism and adult Sunday school when I realized scripture taught doctrine that was opposed to the Tridentine Catholicism we were being taught. We were doing a romp through the Epistles and reading the Fathers that came to this realization. So I did what what any good Anglican would do and sought the help of my priest. It was then I also realized he was a fraud.
True. And I had a dust-up with an ACA priest a while back about this. In the US, probably 15% of the people speak Spanish at home. He told me those people can all just be Roman Catholics, that's fine. I could hardly fathom that level of ignorance and lack of interest. First of all, weird forms of Pentecostalism are sweeping through the Latin American community. Secondly, their Catholicism has always been two steps removed from idol worship.We are now in a world where many, many Anglicans do not speak English, and do not worship in English.
As for ACNA, Albion described it best: they've never decided what they want to be. But they are leaning more and more to generic American Evangelicalism. There are parishes that totally ignore the prayer book. And there is a reason they haven't adopted a standard hymnal: probably less than half would ever use it.
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