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I was born into the Catholic faith. At 14, I was "born again" and found Jesus personally but lost His Church. After thirty years as an evangelical protestant, I have come full circle to find that He has been there all the time, in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. I wish others to find the beauty and truth of the Catholic faith as I have found.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Anglican Communion Votes Down "Covenant"

Looks like the Anglican's have voted to reject a "covenant" or binding agreement to limit the theological wanderings of their 40 member churches. Sadly, this will lead to even further splintering of this communion with no central authority to guide their faith and morals. The Catholic Church already did this 1687 years ago in a sweltering hot summer in Nicea in 325 AD (Council of Nicea). It's a little "covenant" called the Creed. Which incidentally, was put together by the bishops of the Catholic Church a full 57 years before the bible as we now know it was put together and canonized by this same Church (Council of Rome 382 AD)  From the article linked above: 
"In fact, Williams had little more than the force of his own personality to try and win over skeptics. The archbishop of Canterbury has no power directly over Anglican churches — either to adopt his policies or to keep them from adopting their own.
Without a central core of acceptable behavior to unite the global communion, Williams warned of the risk of "piece-by-piece dissolution."

This is like Deja Vu all over again, but hopefully this will ultimately lead more Anglicans to come back to unity with the Church.

2 Comments:

Blogger kkollwitz said...

If you like to keep up with the continuing Anglican drama, you might enjoy Anglicans Unscripted on YouTube.

March 28, 2012 12:00 PM  
Blogger Russ Rentler, M.D. said...

We have to offer up our prayers for these folks in such difficult times. Ultimately it may turn out to be a positive outcome, unity as Jesus prayed.

March 28, 2012 1:19 PM  

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