{"id":1912,"date":"2007-04-28T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/04\/ye-olde-anglican-rumor-mill.html"},"modified":"2007-04-28T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T13:30:00","slug":"ye-olde-anglican-rumor-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/04\/ye-olde-anglican-rumor-mill.html","title":{"rendered":"Ye Olde Anglican Rumor Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Johnson posts a contribution – the comments are a necessary read, as folks sort through such a possibility. I have a hard time seeing it myself, but…who knows!<\/a><\/p>\n

By-the-by, I’m pulling this from the comments over there, not because it directly pertains, but because I was impressed by the clarity and simplicity:<\/p>\n

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Of course I know that Anglo-catholics (And catholic minded Lutherans and probably others) think of themselves as "Catholic", considering the Catholic Church to be divided into branches Roman, Orthodox, Anglican, etc. If I agreed with the branch theory, I’d certainly still be Episcopalian, or more likely Anglican. About 20 years ago, however, a course in Church History (taught in an Episcopal School of Theology by an Episcopalian who described herself as a Calvinist) inbued me with the notion that historically, "Catholic" referred simply to that fellowship of believers in Communion with Peter. "Catholic", therefore was not a concept as much as a concrete function. Concurrently, I picked up the notion (from Orthodoxy) that the classic "visible\/invisible church" dichotomy wasn’t compatible with the Incarnation. So the "Branch Theory" went out the window and I had to consider the claims of the Catholic Church.<\/strong> May 11, 1987 I was received into the Catholic Church at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Mass<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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