[Apologetics] Re: The Situations in the Catholic and Anglican Churches Are NOT Similar!

[Marty Rothwell]

Yeah, Stuart, the only point in common the two groups have is they are both
dealing with very sensitive issues.  I think the Catholic bishops as a group
came down decisively (and maybe too hard, I don't know) whereas the
Anglicans are going to split on the issue.  What mutual indecisiveness do
you see?
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  To: arthurkelly at yahoo.com; apologetics at gathman.org
  Subject: RE: [Apologetics] Re: The Situations in the Catholic and Anglican
Churches Are NOT Similar!


  I'm with Art on this one!



  >From: Art Kelly <arthurkelly at yahoo.com>
  >To: apologetics at gathman.org
  >Subject: [Apologetics] Re: The Situations in the Catholic and Anglican
Churches Are NOT Similar!
  >Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:48:58 -0800 (PST)
  >
  >Stuart,
  >
  >You are absolutely WRONG!
  >
  >The U.S. bishops voted in Dallas sometime back for a
  >"one strike and you're out" policy.
  >
  >In my own view, that may have been too harsh.
  >
  >The Catholic Church is in the business of forgiveness
  >and there may be some particular circumstances where a
  >priest is both truly sorry and unquestionably
  >rehabilitated. To say that he MUST leave the
  >priesthood provides no room for exceptions.
  >
  >Nevertheless, it IS the policy of the Catholic Church
  >in the U.S.
  >
  >Maybe you mean it is still being debated by people
  >like me who want to have a tough policy but one that
  >still provides some degree of flexibililty when the
  >situation warrants it.
  >
  >There are some good Catholics who think the bishops
  >may have over-reacted a bit and should fine-tune the
  >policy to allow for possible rare exceptions to their
  >"one strike and you're out" policy.
  >
  >The situations in the Catholic Church and the
  >Anglican/Episcopal Church are NOT in any way similar.
  >
  >Art
  >
  >--- "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at bmsi.com> wrote:
  >
  > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Bret wrote:
  > >
  > > > Bret's comments: Stop by 2008 or else, they say!
  > > By then thousands will have
  > > > been \"ordained!\"  They lie like Amway uplines!
  > >
  > > It pretty disappointing, alright.  Meanwhile, US
  > > Catholics are *still*
  > > debating whether child molesters should be restored
  > > to active ministry.
  > > I think we are all in big trouble.
  > >
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