You’d think they’d know to mind their own business, but when the Catholic Church is involved, I guess they can’t help themselves:
Well, the media mantra about the Vatican’s welcome to Anglicans has begun, and the anti-Catholicism is about as ugly as it gets.
Venues such as National Public Radio, the London Times, and the Kansas City Star describe the Church as “poaching.” USA Today says the Church is “rustling.” Other media outlets used the term “luring.” Some question whether the move was a “hostile takeover.” And London Times’ Columnist Libby Purves says that “converts may choke on the raw meat of Catholicism.”
Mainstream newspapers such as the New York Times and Washington Post have used the word “bid.” The Boston Globe uses both the words “lure” and “bid.”
No matter how you look at it, they’re all unsavory terms used by the secular media to describe the Church’s actions.
They just can’t stand it – that millions of Anglicans might decide to re-unite with Rome. But, seriously, where else were they to go? Sure, Anglicans could have become Baptists, but the plain fact of the matter is that any believing Anglican will find the Catholic Church to be most “home like” of all the Christian denominations. As the Anglican leadership – and especially the American leadership – has strayed ever further from Christian teaching it becomes a matter of survival for Anglicans who take the Bible seriously…stay with the current leadership and risk slow apostasy, or unite with the Church and meld the streams together in to a larger and stronger Church. Its really as simple as that – had Anglicanism remained firmly committed to Christian principles, this issue never would have arisen.
But, here it is – and the elite are angry over it. They know what will come of it – a tiny, absurd sect calling itself Anglican will have all the sexually active gay bishops and female priestesses they want…but everyone will know that whatever the group is, “Christian” isn’t the word for it. They wanted something they could call Christian to lay in opposition to Rome and the Evangelicals…now they won’t have it.
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