From: cmh004@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Dave)
Subject: Re:Catholic/Anglican faith was(Can the Prime Minster be Catholic?)
Organization: Lanchester Polytechnic
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:48:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.100659.2090@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach) writes:
>>> If you believe there is "one holy catholic and apostolic
>>> church" then why remain a member of a separate church that
>>> deliberately split off from that one holy catholic church in
>>Well it's not our fault if some members of the one holy catholic and
>>apostolic church don't believe that we are all really Christians,

Short story:
A man who had been shipwrecked on a island for 20 years had just been rescued.
His rescuers learnt that he was the only person to survive the shipwreck, but
when they expolered his island they found two chaples built by him. When they
asked him "You were here all alone but you've built two chapels why?".
His reply was "That chapel is the one I worship in the other chapel is the one I
don't go to."!

Yeah I'm a christian, but find it hard to except other christians and I presume
hard to believe that I'm a christian too. Possible because we are not fully
paid up members of each other church.

>My post was a deliberate wind-up in reply to a wind-up post. 

Sorry I just wanted to point out the the RC church does not have a monopoly
of catholicism and that I am a catholic, but not a Roman Catholic.

>The only thing that the Anglos don't like is when they ask the RCs why they 
>can't have communion, and the RCs have to reply "if we let you lot in, we'd 
>have to let in those Bible-thumping semi-Calvinists from the 
>Evangelically-inclined church with the lurid dayglo posters outside as well".

Whats wrong with the idea of church unity even though catholicism can be 
described as a sub-religion of Christiananity. Even though Elizabeth I declared
the CofE to be a protestant church, the CofE still subscribes to the catholic
principles. I gather that the Holy Father believes that Women priests go
againist the catholic religion - I have to disagree with him here. Yet there
is somthing worse againist the catholic identity of the CofE in the pipeline -
giving Holy Communion to people who are not confirmed!!!!#@*&&%%! Yes I 
disagree with that idea. If you are surgesting that the a church of the CofE
is into extreme Evangelical activity wait until their local ArchDeacon knows 
about it. Yet I'll admit that there are people who do advocate it and in small 
doses its OK.
Do you have somthing againist churches with orange posters outside - I quite
like some of them "Jesus is for live - not just for Christmas".

<A good comment by Chesterton deleated in order to trim article.>

If I remember rightly catholic is the surport of the severn holy sacrements
(Baptism, Communion, Ordination, Confirmation, Marridge, Confession, and
Anoiting (SP)).
Apostolic is the continuation of the laying down of hands via Bishop to Bishop
though the centuries. I can't remember who started it off (Peter?,Paul?).
The theory is that when I was confirmed (by a Bishop laying is hands on me)
the line streches back to the time of Peter.
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Dave                                                       cmh004@cck.cov.ac.uk
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