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| | Catholic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This "universal" interpretation is often used to understand the phrase "One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church" in the Nicene Creed, the phrase "the catholic faith" in the Athanasian Creed, and the phrase "holy catholic church" in the Apostles Creed. | | | As well as the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches and the Oriental Orthodox Churches all see themselves as the "one holy catholic and apostolic Church" of the Nicene Creed. | | | Although the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches in general do not view the Anglican Churches as truly "Catholic", Anglicans themselves claim to have all the qualifications needed to be Catholic. |
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| | Catholics believe in the Trinity of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the divinity of Jesus, and the salvation through faith in Jesus Christ and through loving God above all things. | | | The several churches of Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy consider themselves to be the Catholic church as in being the "universal" Church. | | | Christians of most denominations, including most Protestants, affirm their faith in "one holy catholic and apostolic Church." This belief refers to their belief in the ultimate unity of all churches under one God and one Saviour. |
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http://www.online-encyclopedia.info/encyclopedia/c/ca/catholicism.html
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| | Anglo-Catholic |
| | An Anglo-Catholic, Anglican Catholic, English Catholic, or Catholic Anglican, is a member of the Anglican Communion [this is the name Anglicans give to the world-wide Anglican Church, which claims 80 million members] who holds catholic belief and follows catholic practice. | | | Due to the liturgical changes of the Second Vatican Council, and the extent that they have been carried out in both the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. and the liturgical revisions in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S., many R.C. churches are virtually indistiguishable, that is to say liturgically, from many P.E. churches. | | | Unfortunately, real religion seems to be dying out in both the Roman Catholic Church, and the Protestant Episcopal Church, in America today. |
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http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~mernst/anglo-catholic.html
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| | END OF THE OXFORD MOVEMENT (This Rock: January 1994) |
| | He was convinced that the first Christians professed the same beliefs practiced by the modern Catholic Church and that the Catholic Church taught with divine authority. | | | Spokesmen for the Catholic bishops of England and Wales have been quick to point out that it takes more than an opposition to female priests to join the Catholic Church; significant doctrinal obstacles, such as the primacy of the Bishop of Rome, may remain for certain individuals. | | | Learn the origins of the Bible and trace the role of the Catholic Church in compiling, preserving, and revering the Bible throughout history. |
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http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1994/9401fea2.asp
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| | About Anglo-Catholics |
| | In the nineteenth century, 'Anglo-Catholic' asserted the historic claims of the Church of England - the Church of Augustine and Anselm, as well as the Church of Cranmer and Laud - to be the Catholic Church in England. | | | Others still, it has to be said, continued to believe in the vocation of Anglicanism as a whole to be a bridge between Protestant and Catholic Christianity in the search of all the churches to respond faithfully to the prayer of Jesus 'that they may all be one' (John 17:21). | | | Others bided their time, praying for, and working for, 'a Catholic moment' when there would be a substantial realignment of Catholics in England, and perhaps further afield, a moment not of individual submission but of ecclesial reconciliation. |
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http://www.ask-ed.co.uk/sa_files/anglo.htm
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| | What is anglo-catholic parish? |
| | Once they had embraced Catholic teaching, which the sixteenth-century Reformers had to varying degrees rejected, nineteenth-century Anglo-Catholics began to restore to their worship rites and ceremonies expressive of that teaching. | | | Like the Tractarians they had emphasized the continuity of the English Church with the Catholic and Apostolic Church of the ages, the historic succession of bishops as a sign of that continuity, and the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. | | | Fortunately, their twentieth-century successors are not bound by their personal views, but only by the Catholic tradition to which they appealed; and because of advances in scholarship, that tradition is better understood today than it was in the nineteenth century. |
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http://www.gracechurchinnewark.org/whatisanglocatholic.html
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| | Learn more about Catholicism in the online encyclopedia. |
| | The several churches of Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy consider themselves to be the Catholic church as in being the "universal" Church. | | | Structurally Roman Catholicism is one of the world's most centralised religious faiths. | | | Within Roman Catholicism itself, debate on the subject now focuses on whether this statement is meant to invoke papal infallibility and raise the rule that women cannot be Roman Catholic priests to the level of an irreformable dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. |
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| | The Roman Catholic Church, in that 'Catholic moment', would have gained another 2,000 priests, as well as the not inconsiderable Anglo-Catholic laity. | | | The assumption that Catholic Anglicans would carry on with their quarrelsome ways after reception into the Catholic Church showed a complete lack of understanding of what it was that had made them so difficult in the first place. | | | Roman Catholic experience of the Anglican clergy who have so far come is that those who as Anglicans showed the greatest and most effective resistance to the Establishment have turned out to be the most loyal and obedient Catholic clergy. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/francis_gardom/NO97BOOK.HTM
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| | The Protestant Alliance: An Outreach Ministry of The Traditional Protestant Episcopal Church |
| | In any case, whatever judgment may be formed of Anglo-Catholicism from the viewpoint of the Roman Catholic Church, the official conduct of Anglican churches should not be measured by Anglo-Catholic criteria: this would, a priori, render a proper understanding of the activities of these churches impossible. | | | Anglican churches in which the Lord's Supper is again considered the sacrifice of the Mass; in which the priest wears Catholic vestments; and in which nearly all the Roman Catholic devotions such as benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, recitation of the rosary, and veneration of Mary and the saints have been introduced. | | | On the Catholic as well as on the Protestant side there is a fairly recent widespread opinion that Anglicanism is closer to the Roman Catholic Church than to the Reformation. |
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http://reformer.org/articles/articles.cgi?action=fullscreen&primary_key=10
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| | The Anglo-Catholic Vision |
| | Catholic Christianity is a religion of personal and corporate mystery, recounting a saga as old as creation and nursing the hope of the age to come. | | | Of course, we must speak of dogma, for underlying our Catholic religion are beliefs about God, the sacraments, the Church, and the world. | | | But when the Catholic movement entered poverty-stricken urban parishes in Britain and America, priests and religious orders--including some with decidedly Roman sympathies--were quick to understand that they must defend their flock if they were to vindicate the Son of Man. Some embraced radical politics. |
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| | THE ALLENTOWN TRACTS |
| | The difference between the Anglican Catholic and the Anglo-Catholic is as follows. | | | If, before you joined the ACC, You were a member of a 'High Church' Anglican congregation -an 'Anglo-Catholic'-You may have hilly believed all the ancient Catholic doctrines concerning Our Lady, used all the right prayers, and followed all the traditional devotions to her. | | | The Anglican Catholic, however, knows that the Faith and the Church form a 'complete package' based upon the Holy Tradition-the presence of the Holy Spirit himself. |
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| | Catholicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The term Catholicism, derived from the Greek adjective καθολικός (katholikos), meaning "general" or "universal", is widely understood to refer to the Church, governed by the Bishop of Rome and the bishops in communion with him. | | | However, other Churches that trace their historic episcopate to the apostolic succession — such as the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Assyrian Church of the East, the Churches of the Anglican Communion, and the Old-Catholics — consider themselves to be branches of the Catholic Church. | | | Catholicism has two main ecclesiastical meanings, described in Webster's Dictionary as: a) "the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto"; and b) "the doctrines or faith of the Roman Catholic church, or adherence thereto." |
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| | The Faith of an English Catholic, by Darwell Stone |
| | There is a great body of Catholic truth and practice, to the whole of which Anglo-Catholics recognize their responsibility. | | | There is no difference among Anglo-Catholics that the historic custom of the Catholic Church prescribes that for priest and for people no food of any kind is to be taken before Communion. | | | For the Catholic religion is not a series of doctrines and maxims and rites which are separable from and independent of one another. |
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| | Pontifications » Blog Archive » “The Self-deception of Anglo-Catholicism” |
| | To be a “true” Catholic is to believe that the Bishop of Rome and his majesterium are always right, even when they have been unable to convince their own people of their veracity. | | | Similarly, polls tell us that the majority of Catholics do not believe that the consecrated elements of the Eucharist are the body and blood of Christ; but this does not alter the fact that the Catholic Church continues to authoritatively teach transubstantiation. | | | To say that God wants us inside the Catholic Church is not to say that He does not bless the people outside it. |
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| | Anglo-Catholicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The movement Affirming Catholicism is an example of the more progressive approach to Anglo-Catholic theology and practice. | | | So, while the nineteenth-century Anglo-Catholic movement began partly as a reaction to latitudinarianism, secularism and Evangelicalism in the Church of England, the movement's heirs in the contemporary Church are far more diverse and in many respects more inclusive. | | | From that time, through Archbishop Laud and the Caroline divines, up to the time of the Oxford Movement Tractarians, and the Anglo-Catholic Congesses, to the present day of Affirming Catholicism, there has always been a strong theological party within Anglicanism which has sought to stress apostolic continuity all the way back to the apostle Philip. |
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| | The last five lectures dealt with the claim of Anglo-Catholics that because of its moral faults, diversities, provinciality, and innovations, the Roman Church did not possess the classic marks Ñ holiness, unity, catholicity, and apostolicity Ñ whereby the Church was to be known. | | | On the horns of this dilemma, the Roman Catholic Newman argued in his first lecture that his former colleagues in the Oxford Movement had as their sole legitimate business seeking communion with the Roman Church, because she alone represented what their church had forfeited in order to satisfy an increasingly secularized national mind. | | | Concerning the Church of Christ’s being One, Newman finds evidence of an internal principle of life causing the Catholic Church to expel what is foreign to her and to heal her own wounds. |
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| | The Roman Option |
| | The Anglo-Catholics were by and large perfectly orthodox, willing to accept all Catholic doctrine and to submit themselves to reordination. | | | But the English Catholic bishops, egged on by liberals and feminists in the Church who did not want to see 1,000 priests and 50,000 laity loyal to Rome and against women priests enter the Church, balked. | | | In the end, thanks to a myriad of stumbling blocks on the Catholic side, and a more creative response on the Anglican side by giving the dissident parishes four bishops of their own and allowing them to opt out of the regular Church of England structure, the negotiations with Rome and Westminster came to nothing. |
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| | An Anglo-Catholic |
| | And almost all of the Catholics we knew personally were liberal academics, people who were hardly eager to welcome conservatives into the fold. | | | We were brought into the Catholic Church on July 31. | | | The Evangelical and Catholic Mission and the Episcopal Synod of America were designed to recall the Episcopal Church to its Catholic heritage and to biblical morality. |
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| | Anglo-Catholicism |
| | (What I call Anglo-Catholicism’s ‘great dream’.) Most thought of this in terms of reunion with the Roman Catholic Church, which was the Church of medieval England and after which most had patterned their local churches’ practices; a very few others thought in terms of joining the Orthodox Churches. | | | And many held to a ‘branch theory’ of Catholicity that emphasized what the various ancient apostolic Churches (RC, Orthodox and Oriental) have in common as more important than their differences, and holding that even post-Reformation Anglicanism was a ‘branch’ of this Catholic Church equal to Rome and Orthodoxy. | | | The adoption of Roman Catholic clerical uniforms (cassock, biretta) by clergy in the movement was a visible sign of this: they wanted to identify with the larger Church beyond Britain. |
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| | New Catholic Dictionary: Anglo-Catholics |
| | It is estimated that over 4000 ministers are enrolled in the Anglo-Catholic movement and several religious communities of men and women. | | | Some of them reject the branch-theory, that the Anglican Church is a branch of the Catholic Church, and believe in the primacy of the pope, holding that their Church was only accidentally severed from the Catholic. | | | Anglicans who favor Ritualism, claim to celebrate Mass, reserve the sacrament, use the Latin Missal, and in many ways imitate Catholics, as by having confessionals and stations of the cross in their churches. |
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| | Catholic World News : The Problem with Conversions |
| | Meanwhile, "progressive" Catholics inveighed against the possible arrival of these new converts, because the Anglo-Catholics, with their traditional understanding of the Catholic Church, might break the momentum toward "progressive" causes. | | | As their search progressed, Cardinal Basil Hume--the primate of the Catholic Church in England--encouraged them in the belief that they might find a way to enter into full communion with the Holy See while preserving their Anglican heritage, so that they would be "united, not absorbed" into the Catholic Church. | | | But--notwithstanding the arguments of liberal Anglicans and Catholics alike--it would be a mistake to think that their exodus was motivated by nothing more than a rejection of female priests. |
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| | Parish of St. Bartholomew, Clyde Road |
| | But as the movement progressed and moved into the parishes, Anglo-Catholics cultivated a more 'catholic' liturgical style that caused them in some quarters to be regarded as preoccupied with the externals of worship. | | | Since the 1930's, Anglo-Catholics have been less conspicuous as an organized and identifiable party, though the movement continues to have adherents and shows periodic signs of revival, as for example in the Catholic Renewal Conferences, held in Loughborough in 1978 and 1983. | | | In 1990, 'Affirming Catholicism' was founded to provide a forum for the discussion of issues raised by the tension between scholarship and free enquiry on the one hand, and the Catholic tradition within Anglicanism on the other. |
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| | Anglo-Catholicism |
| | The Anglo Catholics sensed a real threat to the church rather than a help in this relationship with an increasingly secular state. | | | Anglo Catholicism has emphasized the doctrine of the incarnation, sacramental theology, and ecclesiastical polity. | | | W L Knox, The Catholic Movement in the Church of England; D Stone, The Faith of an English Catholic; O Chadwick, The Victorian Church; C Gore, ed., Lux Mundi; G Selwyn, ed., Essays Catholic and Critical; O Chadwick, ed., The Oxford Movement; M Ramsey, From Gore to Temple: An Era of Anglican Theology |
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| | Affirming Catholicism |
| | Affirming Catholicism is the new Catholic movement for the Anglican Church today and tomorrow, called to serve the world and witness to the generosity of the Kingdom of God. | | | Papers delivered on the day will be published by Affirming Catholicism as a contribution to the Church of England’s ongoing debate about the consecration of women. | | | Catholic tradition is a living thing, rooted in the revelation of Jesus Christ and growing in the experience of the Church. |
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| | From Anglo to Roman (This Rock: February 1992) |
| | Anglo-Catholicism got me out of a potentially unpleasant dilemma by allowing me to shelve any decision on the Catholic Church's claim to have the fullness of faith. | | | I thought that an apt description, for I was leaving the almost-got-it-right Catholicism of the Anglicans for the fullness of faith to be found only in the Catholic Church. | | | My husband had strong opinions about Catholicism, few of them favorable, and he had made it plain that being married to a Catholic was not something he considered with enthusiasm. |
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| | What are Anglo-Catholics? |
| | There are distinctly two species of Anglo-Catholic - the Affirming Catholic types, who tend to the liberal on matters of sexuality and the ordination of women, and (in the CofE) the "Resolution A, B and C" types who are conservative on these issues. | | | A (n Anglo-) Catholic who veers towards Liberal will be likely friendly towards Aff Cath; one who leans towards Evangelical will likely oppose the ordination of Women and take a traditional line on sexuality. | | | Where E is Evangelical, L is Liberal and C is Catholic. |
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| | Pontifications » Blog Archive » “The Incoherence of Sectarian Catholicity” |
| | To be Roman Catholic is not to be Anglo-Catholic, Eatern Orthodox or Oriental Orthodox and visa versa. | | | Within the Episcopal and other liberal church bodies, it is still possible, here and there, to defend parochial enclaves of orthodox teaching and catholic sensibility. | | | Contentions between rival orthodoxies is an old story in the Church, and the battles that have been fought are riddled with ironies. |
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http://catholica.pontifications.net/?p=376
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| | AN AMBIGUOUS LEGACY |
| | Parallel to Anglo-Catholic ritualism there developed an ecclesiology, indeed a comprehensive theology, which was highly indebted to Catholic and Orthodox sources and greatly at odds with what most Anglicans had historically held, to the point where, when Anglo-Catholics and Low Churchmen spoke of "the Church"; they were often speaking of two quite different theological concepts. | | | While many notable individuals became Catholics, a majority of the "Tractarians" remained within the Anglican Church and in time had a significant effect on its beliefs and practices. | | | Here again some of the Tractarians were far ahead of their time, practicing a kind of deconstruction in which no text could be assumed to have a fixed and clear meaning. |
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| | Pontifications » Blog Archive » “The Self-deception of Anglo-Catholicism” |
| | The American RC Church is rife with a “cafeteria Catholicism” far worse than the “pick and choose” attitude of Anglo-Catholics, which was at least motivated by genuine piety even if that piety did not measure up to Mills’s idea of genuine Catholicism. | | | Similarly, polls tell us that the majority of Catholics do not believe that the consecrated elements of the Eucharist are the body and blood of Christ; but this does not alter the fact that the Catholic Church continues to authoritatively teach transubstantiation. | | | He explains the Protestant origin of his own Church, and the decisive Protestantism of its doctrinal statements, by saying that the Reformers naturally went too far in trying to purify the Catholic Church. |
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