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    Anglicans' regret over bishop's conversion to Rome

    A traditionalist Anglican group has voiced regret after an Anglo-Catholic bishop said he would convert to Rome.



    The Bishop of Fulham, John Broadhurst, has become the fourth Anglican bishop to make the announcement.

    He intends joining the Roman Catholic Church because of his opposition to the way the Church of England plans to introduce women bishops.

    Meanwhile, a Kent Anglican congregation has become the first to take up the Pope's offer to convert to Catholicism.

    The Pope created a special enclave in the Roman Catholic Church for Anglicans unhappy with their church's decision to let women become bishops.

    The Catholic Group on the CofE's General Synod said it deeply regretted the decision by Bishop Broadhurst.

    The bishop, who is the leader of the traditionalist organisation Forward in Faith, is the most significant Anglican so far to say he will convert to Catholicism.

    He is currently the "flying bishop" charged with looking after traditionalist parishes opposed to women priests and bishops in the dioceses of London, Southwark and Rochester.

    Personal hardship

    The Catholic Group said it was determined to stay in the Church of England and fight for a better deal for Anglicans who did not want to serve under women bishops.

    BBC religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott says the group's statement seems intended to counter any encouragement Bishop Broadhurst's announcement might give to traditionalist clergy to take up Pope Benedict's offer of a privileged place in the Roman Catholic Church.

    Our correspondent says many traditionalist clergy are unhappy with the level of protection so far offered to them from serving under a woman bishop, but might hesitate in the face of a decision likely to cause them considerable personal hardship.

    Bishop Broadhurst's statement came as it emerged that the traditionalist Anglo-Catholic congregation of St Peter's in Folkestone had become the first to begin the process of leaving to join the Roman Catholic Church.

    The Pope has created a special enclave in the Roman Catholic Church for Anglicans unhappy with their Church's decision to let women become bishops.

    Under his controversial offer, Anglicans could retain some of their practices and traditions.

    The vote for St Peter's to convert took place at the end of September - perhaps encouraged by the Pope's visit to Britain - but it has only emerged now.

    At the time of the visit the Archbishop of Canterbury - in whose diocese St Peter lies - joked that he and the Pope had at least two things in common, a fondest for cats, and a keenness to recruit Anglican clergy.

    However, the initiative was taken by lay people, with the intention of converting as a group, our correspondent added.

    It is thought unlikely they would be allowed to take their church with them.
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    Who cares? Christianity in the UK is in terminal decline. Catholic or Anglican, it's had its day and will die out within a generation or two. The only Catholics will be immigrants from the 3rd world.

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    Only one lot right now, it's good news, I pray for more to come in the future.

    Quote Originally Posted by The Silent Man View Post
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    Wow.. I assumed you would give two flying monkey-fucks about your heritage, but it seems you cannot even manage that.
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    The Church and its exoteric teachings are irrelevant and alway have been. Church-goers are feeble-minded sheep participating in empty ritual. That may be your heritage but it's not mine.

    The only part of Christianity with any value is its esoteric core, which is secret and so far removed from the exoteric surface of the established Church that so-called Christians would be astonished by it were they to come into contact with it.

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    'Two flying monkey fucks?' You must be an altar boy.

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    Someone missed a history lesson. Go back to school little boy, crack open a book, and listen to what the teacher says.
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    P D Ouspensky, 'Christianity and the New Testament' - 'The four Gospels are written for the few, for the very few, for the pupils of esoteric schools. However intelligent and educated in the ordinary sense a man may be, he will not understand the Gospels without special indications and without special esoteric knowledge.'

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Silent Man View Post
    P D Ouspensky
    I'm to take Ouspensky seriously why?
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    Read him and find out.

    Maybe your teachers have got it wrong and men like Ouspensky have got it right. Did it ever occur to you that your priest may be as ignorant as you are?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Silent Man View Post
    Read him and find out.

    Maybe your teachers have got it wrong and men like Ouspensky have got it right. Did it ever occur to you that your priest may be as ignorant as you are?
    Right, I will go and abandon two thousand years of history, culture, civilisation, martyrs, mystics, scholars and doctors, not to mention the divine institution of the very framework that allowed for all of these, Holy Mother Church, for some random fellow named.. who was it again? Oppesanki? Sorry, hard to remember nobodies.
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