a. ordinary: connected by the law itself to the office entrusted to him by the Roman Pontiff, for both the internal forum and external forum;The situation of married Anglican seminarians will likely be by a case by case situation and will have a calendar limit (i.e. no Anglican seminarians who enrolled passed such and such a date).
b. vicarious: exercised in the name of the Roman Pontiff;
c. personal: exercised over all who belong to the Ordinariate;
Labels: Anglican Ordinariate
I'm still digesting the Holy Father's new Apostolic Constitution Anglicorum Coetibus. I also want to talk to a few people about it before I comment publicly.
I'll try to write up something by tomorrow (Tuesday).
in Christ,
Taylor
PS: In the mean time, please read: "Five Myths about the Pope's Anglican Ordinariates" by Taylor Marshall
Labels: Anglican Ordinariate, Benedict XVI

Play song from Lala.com Achtung Baby - 1991 - 4:38 |
Labels: Christology, Music, U2
In learning and professing the faith, you must accept and retain only
the Church's present tradition, confirmed as it is by the Scriptures [we must accept the Church's "tradition" as confirmed by the Scriptures - that's not Luther's sola scriptura folks].
Although not everyone is able to read the Scriptures, some because
they have never learned to read, others because their daily activities
keep them from such study, still so that their souls will not be lost
through ignorance, we have gathered together the whole of the faith
in a few concise articles. [the formulation of a "creed" then is for salvation - it summarizes the Gospel content]
Now I order you to retain this creed for your nourishment
throughout life and never to accept any alternative, not even if I
myself were to change and say something contrary to what I am now
teaching, not even if some angel of contradiction, changed into an
angel of light, tried to lead you astray. For even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which you have now
received, let him be accursed in your sight. [Again the "creed" is the objective Gospel of Christ and St Cyril invokes St Paul's anathema regarding it.]
So for the present be content to listen to the simple words of the
creed and to memorize them; at some suitable time you can find
the proof of each article in the Scriptures [first we assent to the Church's teaching - and then we find that it is based on Scripture - not the order of things here - again not Luther's sola scriputra]. This summary of the
faith was not composed at man's whim, the most important sections
were chosen from the whole Scripture to constitute and complete
a comprehensive statement of the faith. Just as the mustard seed
contains in a small grain many branches, so this brief statement of
the faith keeps in its heart, as it were, all the religious truth to be
found in Old and New Testament alike [the Creed itself is built on Scripture as a synopsis]. That is why, my brothers,
you must consider and preserve the traditions you are now receiving [so the creed is a set of traditions derived from Apostolic teaching, summarizing Scripture, and must be preserved by catechumens from baptism till death].
Inscribe them across your heart.
Labels: Apostles' Creed, Church Fathers, Justification, Saints

Labels: Benedict XVI, Scott Hahn, Scripture, Theology


Labels: Christology, Jonah, Old Testament, Typology

Ironically, celebrating the Reformation is more gruesome than a bloody costume. The latter is pretend, while the former violence to the body of Christ is real -- and made all the worse by the way that tragedy is perpetuated with joy.
Labels: Halloween, Holy Days, Luther, Reformation
I am the former curate referred to in your article about the Church of the Good Shepherd, Rosemont, as one who had already left the Anglican parish to become Roman Catholic.
The article describes Anglicans attracted to Rome as being against women’s and homosexual ordinations. But this does not describe the real motivation for why priests like me reconcile with the Roman Catholic Church.
The main issue is the fact that the Anglican Church has no consistent doctrinal authority and often acts independently from the historical positions of the universal church. In light of this, the ordination of women and practicing homosexuals is merely symptomatic of much more fundamental problems with Anglican ecclesiology.
Priests like me are not reacting to polemics on the theological spectrum. It is the faith once delivered that we are after, which we pursue as an imperative of conscience.
Albert Scharbach
Baltimore, Oct. 28, 2009
The writer is pastoral assistant to Bishop Denis J. Madden of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Labels: Anglican Ordinariate, Anglicanism



