Thanks for the overview--there seems to be more continuity than I would have thought, owing to the releative lack of revolutionary activity in England, I suppose.
The situation in the Episcopalian Church here is becoming more complex. Appoinement of priests is exclusivley the business of Bishops, but lately many congregations have seceded from the authority of their old Bishop so that they will not recieve a priest from a Bishop contmainated by countenencing the ordination of women. Consequently they have frequently put themselves under the authority of African bishops.
On the Catholic front, our local Bishop has been attempting to destroy a traditionally Polish parish (the congregants now live throughout the area, none in the immediate neighborhood of the Church), probably over monetary issues, although the local press are reluctant or unable to comment on that point. In any case the Parish has been under excommunication for some time. However, they procured their own priest who claimed that he would defend their interests against the Bishop because of his own Polish ancestry and give them communion anyway--but it turns out this was only a cover on his part to introduce female assitant priests (there is some woman here who, after her husband died of cancer 30 years ago mysteriously received directly from God the power to ordain women, or so she says, who supplies them to him).
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Date: 2008-06-03 12:53 pm (UTC)The situation in the Episcopalian Church here is becoming more complex. Appoinement of priests is exclusivley the business of Bishops, but lately many congregations have seceded from the authority of their old Bishop so that they will not recieve a priest from a Bishop contmainated by countenencing the ordination of women. Consequently they have frequently put themselves under the authority of African bishops.
On the Catholic front, our local Bishop has been attempting to destroy a traditionally Polish parish (the congregants now live throughout the area, none in the immediate neighborhood of the Church), probably over monetary issues, although the local press are reluctant or unable to comment on that point. In any case the Parish has been under excommunication for some time. However, they procured their own priest who claimed that he would defend their interests against the Bishop because of his own Polish ancestry and give them communion anyway--but it turns out this was only a cover on his part to introduce female assitant priests (there is some woman here who, after her husband died of cancer 30 years ago mysteriously received directly from God the power to ordain women, or so she says, who supplies them to him).