Comments on: Where is Ecumenism? http://catholicexchange.com/2009/07/03/120060/ Catholic News, Catholic Articles, Catholic Apologetics, Catholic Content, Catholic Information Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: Arkanabar Ilarsadin http://catholicexchange.com/2009/07/03/120060/comment-page-1/#comment-40987 Arkanabar Ilarsadin Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:34:40 +0000 http://catholicexchange.com/2009/07/03/120060/#comment-40987 @Noel, "This seems like the kettle calling the pot black. We Catholics, unholy people in a holy Church, have our own problems, with clerical abuse and a huge decrease in practice and commitment." That we have our problems is no doubt true. That they rival the problems of the Anglican Communion is not. Anglican and Episcopalian conferences and sub-communions rise, spread, form and break alliances at breakneck speed, and on the basis of incredibly vast differences over doctrine and dogma. Read the archives and comments on Fr. Dwight Longenecker's blog to get some idea of the dizzying doctrinal and political disorder and disarray currently afflicting the Anglicans: http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com/ @Noel,
“This seems like the kettle calling the pot black. We Catholics, unholy people in a holy Church, have our own problems, with clerical abuse and a huge decrease in practice and commitment.”

That we have our problems is no doubt true. That they rival the problems of the Anglican Communion is not. Anglican and Episcopalian conferences and sub-communions rise, spread, form and break alliances at breakneck speed, and on the basis of incredibly vast differences over doctrine and dogma. Read the archives and comments on Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s blog to get some idea of the dizzying doctrinal and political disorder and disarray currently afflicting the Anglicans:

http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com/

]]> By: noelfitz http://catholicexchange.com/2009/07/03/120060/comment-page-1/#comment-40969 noelfitz Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:23:43 +0000 http://catholicexchange.com/2009/07/03/120060/#comment-40969 I read here about "the Anglicans’ well publicized inability to put their house in anything approximating even a semblance of order." This seems like the kettle calling the pot black. We Catholics, unholy people in a holy Church, have our own problems, with clerical abuse and a huge decrease in practice and commitment. To me the real success of ecumenism would be to bring traditional, conservative Republican and liberal, progressive Democratic Catholics together. In a few years the American Catholic Church will be Hispanic in the majority, and about 70% of these are Obama supporters. The Church will have to know how to minister to these Catholics. The Church is more than an anti-abortion lobby group. There is little discussion now between Catholics, who share the one true faith. In the Roundtable "Faith and Life" the most recent contributions have been by me (June 26, 21, 14 and 13). Does anyone else have any views about faith and life? Please pray for the Pope as he prepares to issue his new encyclical and meet President Obama. I read here about
“the Anglicans’ well publicized inability to put their house in anything approximating even a semblance of order.”

This seems like the kettle calling the pot black. We Catholics, unholy people in a holy Church, have our own problems, with clerical abuse and a huge decrease in practice and commitment.

To me the real success of ecumenism would be to bring traditional, conservative Republican and liberal, progressive Democratic Catholics together. In a few years the American Catholic Church will be Hispanic in the majority, and about 70% of these are Obama supporters. The Church will have to know how to minister to these Catholics. The Church is more than an anti-abortion lobby group.

There is little discussion now between Catholics, who share the one true faith.

In the Roundtable “Faith and Life” the most recent contributions have been by me (June 26, 21, 14 and 13). Does anyone else have any views about faith and life?

Please pray for the Pope as he prepares to issue his new encyclical and meet President Obama.

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