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Leo XIII, the Pope who declared Anglican Orders “absolutely null and utterly void.” A Question of Validity In Apostolicae Curae (A.C. hereafter) the Pope addressed the validity of the Form of Anglican Orders thus: Sacraments of the New Law … ought … to signify the grace which they effect” (Paragraph 24). But the words which until recently were commonly held by Anglicans to constitute the proper form of priestly ordination namely, “Receive the Holy Ghost,” certainly do not in the least definitely express the sacred Order of Priesthood (sacerdotium) or its grace and power” (Paragraph 25–it is unclear whether this means the rite must specify both the Order and its particular “power”, or one or the other)....

Recent comments by a number of our readers have implied that the reason we are not in full communion with either the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Churches (RCC and EOC henceforth, respectively) is that we have separated from them both. A correlative assertion is that we have done so for reasons of incompatible dogma in one area or another, such that this self-imposed isolation was obligatory. Deriving from this position is a syllogism such as that following, and a claim that we cannot accept reunion with either the RCC or EOC until they are restored to an orthodoxy which we, almost alone apparently, represent....

Charles Wesley was a major figure in the eighteenth century revival and a great writer of hymns. Stirring up the Faithful After the reign of William and Mary ended in 1702, the throne passed to a younger daughter of James II named Anne. Queen Anne was a generous patron of the Church and set up a fund to help supplement the incomes of the poorer clergy. When she died in 1714, however, the crown of England passed to the German House of Hanover....

The modern papacy and its claims to universal, ordinary jurisdiction and to infallible teaching authority constitute a major alternative to the understanding of authority in the Church as understood within the Anglican tradition. Before presenting an Anglican interpretation of the papacy, a correct understanding of what papal claims are and are not is needed. The word “Pope” comes from “papa,” Greek papas, meaning “father.” Not until Pope Gregory VII in 1073 was use of the title “Pope” formally restricted to the Bishop of Rome, but already in 998 the Archbishop of Milan was rebuked for using the title....

A roundel from the mosaic at Hinton St. Mary; evidince for Christianity in Roman Britain.-c Christianity in Roman Britain We cannot tell exactly when Christianity first came to Britian. There are some very early writings about missionary travels which may refer to the British Isles, but there is little certainty. About the year 70, Clement who was then Bishop of Rome, wrote that St. Paul went “to the extreme limits of the West....

James I commissioned the English Bible translation which bears his name. James I and the new English Bible Elizabeth I died in 1603. Since she had no children of her own, her heir was her cousin’s son, James VI of Scotland. James was a descendant of Henry VII and had been King of the Scots since infancy, when a group of Protestant lords forced his Roman Catholic mother to abdicate in his favor....

One of the great barriers to Anglican Catholics considering corporate reunion with Rome is that we perceive a demand on the other side of the Tiber for a mere submission which would involve two deliberate lies by us. The first would be an unqualified affirmation that Rome’s actions and common or approved teachings in the past (relevant to the broken relationship between our Churches) have not been at fault. The second, related to the first, is a dishonest denial of our identity....

Anglicanism was characterized by common worship and common prayer. The Diversity of ‘Classical’ Anglicanism Those who have studied Anglicanism closely know that Anglican history shows several broad strains of tradition, all of which can plausibly claim to be classically Anglican in that they have a long pedigree within the Church of England and her daughter Churches. Yet no one of these strands can claim to be Anglicanism in an exclusive sense if that claim means to imply that most Anglicans in fact historically held to that particular strand....

Bishops from different jurisdictions have been working towards reunification. Restoring Unity–First Steps Beginning in June a number of Continuing Church leaders have met three times: in Victoria, British Columbia, in West Palm Beach, Florida, and in Brockton, Massachusetts. The bishops involved include the leaders of the three Churches that are in full communion with each other and whose first bishops were consecrated in 1978 in Denver (the ACC, the Anglican Province of Christ the King [APCK], and the United Episcopal Church in North America [UECNA]), but also include three bodies with which we are not yet in full communion: the Anglican Church in America (ACA), the Anglican Province in America (APA), and the Diocese of the Holy Cross (DHC)....

The Gospel Imperative The Church of Jesus Christ is “One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic.” Whilst on earth its unity, holiness, catholicity and apostolicity are imperfect, all ecclesiastical jurisdictions within the Apostolic Tradition acknowledge the Gospel imperative towards unity which springs from our Lord’s High Priestly Prayer recorded in St. John’s Gospel, in particular: “I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me....