They're right. Imagine this happening a hundred years ago, or much more recently, during the Troubles. I wonder at the realities of this union. Going to parties, referring to her husband following tradition, attending important church events, etc. This would strain most marriages. Regardless, she should be lauded for her choice and this brought a smile to my morning.
Dublin, Oct. 15, 2007 (CWNews.com) - The wife of an Irish Anglican bishop has entered the Roman Catholic Church, with her husband's public support.
Anita Henderson was received into the Catholic Church by Bishop John Fleming of Killala. Her husband, Bishop Richard Henderson of the Church of Ireland, attended the ceremony.
The two bishops, Catholic and Anglican, issued a joint statement after the ceremony, indicating that Anita Henderson's religious affiliation was a matter of private conscience that "deserves the respect of us all."
"This is a time of unprecedented hospitality, friendship, and collaboration between our local churches," the joint statement continued. The bishop said that ecumenical advances have helped make believers "increasingly aware of how much we have in common, and yet how distinctive the different traditions remain; how much in their variety they are especially suited to some, but not to others."
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At the risk of sounding cynical and negative, I see little difference between Novus Ordo Catholicism and Anglicanism, so I really don't see how Mrs. Henderson "converted" to anything...
ReplyDeleteThe "joint statement" issued by the two bishops is a case in point.
Ignoring how deeply offensive that is Catholics: for starters, Anglicans are very wishy washy over the whole Immaculate Conception, you can divorce and remarry without annulments, scratch an Anglican and you never know what you'll get, they can't agree that the communion is a sacrament, a symbol, mid-liturgical snack time or what have you . . . they have pretty vestments and nice music. Contraceptives are still okay and so is abortion for that matter, they had gays in the seminary before we did, women "priests" . . and the list of abuses goes on and on and on. Too often I find that self-hating Catholics, who have so much to complain about and so little to offer in the way of actual constructive criticism, have missed the point, and really 2 points at that: 1) the Mass (or Divine Liturgy) was not made for man; Man was made for the Mass; and 2) if Jesus deigned to condescend not only to earth, but even now to an altar, in an otherwise barren church with guitars and leotarded women . . . if Jesus deigned to be present, then who are you to turn your nose up at it?
ReplyDeleteThe problems in the Church at present are tremendous, but liturgics do not figure in my mind at the forefront. The belief that the Eucharist is the Most Precious Body and Most Precious Blood, that Hell is real and that the devil exists, that fewer than 3% of Catholics in this country follow the Church's teaching re: contraceptives, that there is a critical shortage in vocations of all types? As of yet the Latin Church is making headway into this territory with young people and there is a resurgence in vocations (at least in the US). Byzantine Church Catholics ought not ignore the call or to put it another way, don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
That "joint statement" probably preserved there marriage.