tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post5151139423717636980..comments2019-11-23T05:03:46.621+00:00Comments on CSSML: Anglican tragedyStephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-20812717001798544592007-02-05T22:44:00.000+00:002007-02-05T22:44:00.000+00:00yes indeed, the Catholic Church has its problems. ...yes indeed, the Catholic Church has its problems. The big difference is that we have the magisterium...the teaching authority of the church which remains firm. This does not mean, by any stretch, that all Catholics abide by it. Sometimes it becomes nothing more than a wall to crash against, but still the wall is there.<br /><br />Think of playing tennis. The Anglicans are trying to play tennis Fr Longeneckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12373317560249811006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-12329605465055312072007-02-05T21:29:00.000+00:002007-02-05T21:29:00.000+00:00In the currently unfolding Anglican saga, the grea...In the currently unfolding Anglican saga, the great cardinal's line of argument will very probably be vindicated. However I wonder what he'd have made of the present state of his (and your) adopted Church: one in which its authority is widely questioned or ignored and where claims to unity of either doctrine or form can scarcely be held up as an exemplar to those of us still on the other side ofStephen Wiknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-80322285295380325242007-02-05T18:54:00.000+00:002007-02-05T18:54:00.000+00:00Cardinal Newman observes (and I paraphrase) that w...Cardinal Newman observes (and I paraphrase) that without an infallible authority a church must either fall into the latitudinarian error or the sectarian error. It will either preserve unity of form at the expense of unity of doctrine, or preserve unity of doctrine at the expense of unity of form.<br /><br />One might add that, given enough time, without both unity of form and unity of doctrine aFr Longeneckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12373317560249811006noreply@blogger.com