tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post3619665444190218608..comments2024-03-14T06:43:39.590+00:00Comments on LMS Chairman: Can Parliament tell us that Women Bishops and SSM are right?Latin Mass Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951084157414901564noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-66548854791994409122014-02-15T10:15:42.114+00:002014-02-15T10:15:42.114+00:00It seems the Anglican bishops have decided to agre...It seems the Anglican bishops have decided to agree with you.Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07537123281964278798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-21095138771134130432014-02-14T22:42:06.410+00:002014-02-14T22:42:06.410+00:00"It’s not a church that says we do this and w..."It’s not a church that says we do this and we don’t do that. It’s a church that says we do this and we do that and actually quite a lot of us don’t like that but we are still going to do it because of love." I may be being naïve, but is this not exactly the opposite of the moral St. Paul is trying to teach regarding meat sacrificed to idols in 1 Corinthians 8:4-13?Nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16502729484329811268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-59574809221355332832014-02-14T16:47:28.326+00:002014-02-14T16:47:28.326+00:00The best justification I’ve heard for the Church o...The best justification I’ve heard for the Church of England was given in a sermon at St. Martin’s, Canterbury (believed to be England’s oldest parish church). It was observed that the kind of Christianity encountered by parishioners over the centuries had varied considerably; and that this begged serious questions about the sense in which those present could be said to be in continuity with their predecessors. The answer was that continuity subsisted in each generation’s coming together in that place to worship in the manner of the time. <br /><br />As a convert to Catholicism I believe this argument to be flawed but I admire it for its honesty, appealing as it does to the experience of generations of locals who have seen ecclesiastical polity and fashion come and go. It is at least preferable to pompous attempts to claim “true” Catholicism on the basis of the law of the land.<br />IanWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14802289720095323373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-53507653987151989172014-02-14T16:35:23.762+00:002014-02-14T16:35:23.762+00:00If Parliament were to pass a law to say that there...If Parliament were to pass a law to say that there is no God, what then? Did not St Thomas More say something like that to Rich? <br /><br />Unjust laws are purely penal and are not binding in conscience. Frederick Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06106669441369527118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-55733575407664815062014-02-14T15:26:07.590+00:002014-02-14T15:26:07.590+00:00The premise on which "Cranmer" responded...The premise on which "Cranmer" responded to your questions, was that there is (from his point of view) bi spiritual authority this side of Heaven. The Reformers didn't simply reject the authority of the Pope, they denied it ever existed (claiming that the promises of Our Lord to Peter and the Apostles, applied to them only and died with them). Since they denied that Holy Orders was instituted by Christ but was instituted by the Apostles out of necessity, they viewed the Pope as the temporal ruler of the Papal States who also happened to be the bishop of Rome. Of course what form of church government was to replace the Catholic Church depended on the political ambitions of the new religion's adherents.Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07537123281964278798noreply@blogger.com