Today has been designated as National Coming Out Day.
There’s been so much going on recently in the media and social media about gay bishops in the Church of England.
This seems to me to say it in a more elegant way than all the letters to the press, editorials, blog posts and twitter posts by the score.
Well, el Papa, gave us the Ratsfinger again. Twice in one trip.
http://mundabor.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/saucy-pope-wears-leo-xiiis-stole-in-westminster-abbey/
That has to be a record! Twice in four days.
Kelvin, do the RCs lump everyone in the Encyclical? I ask because your orders are not really English orders are they?
Thanks David | Dah•veed – I think that all Anglicans are lumped together. I am indeed not in English orders.
Its worth reading Apostolicae Curae all the same. Much of the argument focuses on the actual form of the Anglican ordinal at the time.
David | Dah•veed,
In fairness to Benedict, it was a very nice stole. One wonders if he has two millenia of papal vestments to chose from – The Vatican must have the Mother of all Dressing Up Cupboards! 🙂
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