tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post2859039311259392959..comments2023-10-25T04:22:54.910-07:00Comments on An Anglican Priest: The Ruminations of a Canterbury Cap Catholic: Rev. Dr. Hasserthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14350737386756722887noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-26403345866567471292008-02-09T15:27:00.000-08:002008-02-09T15:27:00.000-08:00I was more than delighted to see this post. Anyone...I was more than delighted to see this post. Anyone familiar with the writings of the Anglican greats of the 19th century should be aware that they took the claims of the Roman See and its occupants very seriously and by reference to the history of the Church and the undoubted writings of the fathers disposed of them very expediously. My particular favorite among those volumes is Richard Frederick Littledale's The Petrine Claims. Unfortunately Rome knew and still knows that old books disappear from libraries and what was written in them is generally forgotten by the next generation. This means that they are free to return to their old claims as if they had never been more than adequately refuted. To me, that implies that we, as Anglicans, will have almost a perpetual task of refuting Roman propaganda and should see that those with the proper abilities among us are adequately educated.<BR/> But then we must also educate our people. If we try to be charitable and leave the Roman question to Romans and to the likes of the editor of First Things, then we are going to have to deal with this set of - what in charity can you call them - fictions from now until the Second Coming. Our only other hope is that the good Irish saint's list provides for only one more occupant of the Roman See before that city perishs in fire. If it happens in my life time, I shall certainly miss Alfredo's.<BR/><BR/>Seriously, while the Roman See has certainly been Anglicanized in our years, it has a considerable way to go before its self identification with the earliest Church is anything more than a joke in very poor taste. The worst is that the secular press which seems to hate all things Christian seems to believe this one thing while both Anglicanism and the Orthodox East are given very short shrift. I sometimes dispair of it, but then I remember the verses from St Peter's epistle, "Brethern, be sober . . ." and I remember that God is still the final judge.<BR/><BR/>DG!!Canon Tallishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05182884929479435751noreply@blogger.com