News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
HELL — Infernal sources have just confirmed that Satan has decided to join the communion of the Episcopal Church.
According to Hell’s spokesdemon, Satan had been attending ELCA and United Methodist churches for the past few years before deciding that the Episcopal Church was right for him.
“The Devil just lines up theologically with everything the Episcopalians are preaching,” said Junior Devil Shmerklwitz, who serves as Satan’s media liaison. “He wasn’t really convinced for many years, but one fire-and-brimstone sermon from a gay transwoman bishop on how circumcision was an Old Testament picture of gender transitioning young babies really changed his mind on the denomination. He’s their biggest supporter now.”
According to local Bishop Glayle Jaemeson (they/them), Satan has been an excellent addition to the Episcopalian fold.
“It’s a joy to celebrate the good news every week with this guy,” Jaemeson said. “And we love the Sriracha doughnuts he brings for our coffee hour afterward. Top notch fellow — wish more of my parishioners were like him.”
Go here to read the rest. I can neither confirm nor deny the rumors that the higher ranks of the Jesuits are envious of this latest development.
Thanks to the heterodoxies of the ECUSA and Canterbury, there are now a plethora of Anglican jurisdictions in the United States and elsewhere. I couldn’t even begin to list them all. There are a few, however, that follow the 1928 BCP and are better than most. As for the ECUSA and Canterbury, they have lost the Anglican soul that once believed in Christ in both Word and Sacrament.
Oh, BTW, I forgot to add that this started in August of 1930 when the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops officially approved the use of contraceptives in Britain. Only months later, in March of 1931, the Federal Council of Churches in the United States did the same. Then the selling of the Anglican soul to the devil was sealed with the 1979 heterodox BCP. From there came female deacons, priests, bishops, homosexual marriage and homosexual clergy, etc.
But remember this: the downfall of Anglicanism started with approval to use contraception. This approval was a negation of God’s command to Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiple, a command that was never rescinded under the New Covenant because it was given to all mankind before the establishment of the Old Covenant under Moses.
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Correction. The downfall of the Anglican Church *began* at its inception. When it divorced itself from the Church.
Yes, Bruised Optimist, Henry VIII. To think that for his defense of the Church against Lutheranism the Pope had declared him the Defensor Fidei, then but a short time later began his series of divorces and re-marriages. I don’t get it.
Nevertheless, that all said, I have met many good clergy in the breakaway Anglican jurisdictions who love the Lord and do their best to serve Him. But they won’t go to Rome given our problematic Pope. I know one Archbishop personally who during Benedict XVI’s time was thinking about crossing the Tiber with his entire jurisdiction, but he $h1t canned the idea after Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s first speech to Congress where he condemned capital punishment to the applause of the Democrats and refused to say one word about abortion. That sealed it. You know the rest of the story. 😞
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That grieves me to hear of the Archbishop. Perhaps in time. Constantine was only baptized as he neared death, though he was a friend to the Church for some time.
Perhaps Henry’s problem was trust. Trust that God would work out the succession. Lack of which led to a desperate string of fornication to produce a “legitimate” heir.
Trust. My trust has been strained and tested by the Francis years. It is often hard to endure when so many otherwise well formed Catholics seem to think the pope IS the Church, forgetting that he is only Christ’s placeholder.
I suppose you could look at it that way.
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Henry was a stupefyingly self-indulgent man (financed by Britain’s merchants, artisans, and peasants) and a madly willful man. NB, a queen-regnant was not a novel idea and the political establishment in England and Wales eventually settled for one.
Bruised Optimist:
Jesus did not abolish the death penalty since capital punishment is the temporal punishment for capital one homicide and is executed through the power of attorney of the condemned.
To do God does not contradict Himself. Jesus is the Revelation of God.so would be reneging on the free will and power of attorney of the murderer.so would be reneging on the free will and power of attorney of the murderer.
God does not contradict Himself. Jesus is the Revelation of God.
Bruised Optimist:
Jesus did not abolish the death penalty since capital punishment is the temporal punishment for capital one homicide and is executed through the power of attorney of the condemned.
God does not contradict Himself. Jesus is the Revelation of God.
To do so would be reneging on the free will and power of attorney of the murderer.
I hope I got it right. This new computer’s co-pilot tells me I am wrong all the time. AI Artificial idiocy, insanity or may be ignorance. Thank God my children know how to fix this machine.
Yes Art Deco, King Charles is the Head of the Church of England. I had hoped that Elizabeth II would have changed that.