A Bleak Year for Christian Unity Concludes

[Michie]

COMMENTARY: The Anglican Communion has effectively entered palliative care and divisions in the Catholic world are the deepest in generations — and blessings of same-sex couples is the proximate cause of both crises.

The Apostles Peter and Paul have two feasts each. Their principal one is shared on June 29, and then each has his own, too. The Conversion of Paul is marked on Jan. 25 and the Chair of St. Peter on Feb. 22. The first of those feasts concludes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

All three feasts celebrate the apostolic foundations of Christian unity.

Peter is the visible center of unity in the Church, and that universal ministry includes Paul in a particular way, as witnessed by their joint feast as “princes” of the apostles. Because Petrine claims are disputed by Orthodox and Protestants, the Conversion of St. Paul is the anchor for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

This past year, though, from February 2023 to February 2024, has been a bleak one for unity. The Anglican Communion has effectively entered palliative care, and the divisions in the Catholic world have never been so great in generations. The proximate cause of both crises are blessings of same-sex couples.

Continued below.

A Bleak Year for Christian Unity Concludes

COMMENTARY: The Anglican Communion has effectively entered palliative care and divisions in the Catholic world are the deepest in generations — and blessings of same-sex couples is the proximate cause of both crises.

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[chevyontheriver]

COMMENTARY: The Anglican Communion has effectively entered palliative care and divisions in the Catholic world are the deepest in generations — and blessings of same-sex couples is the proximate cause of both crises.

The Apostles Peter and Paul have two feasts each. Their principal one is shared on June 29, and then each has his own, too. The Conversion of Paul is marked on Jan. 25 and the Chair of St. Peter on Feb. 22. The first of those feasts concludes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

All three feasts celebrate the apostolic foundations of Christian unity.

Peter is the visible center of unity in the Church, and that universal ministry includes Paul in a particular way, as witnessed by their joint feast as “princes” of the apostles. Because Petrine claims are disputed by Orthodox and Protestants, the Conversion of St. Paul is the anchor for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

This past year, though, from February 2023 to February 2024, has been a bleak one for unity. The Anglican Communion has effectively entered palliative care, and the divisions in the Catholic world have never been so great in generations. The proximate cause of both crises are blessings of same-sex couples.

Continued below.

A Bleak Year for Christian Unity Concludes

COMMENTARY: The Anglican Communion has effectively entered palliative care and divisions in the Catholic world are the deepest in generations — and blessings of same-sex couples is the proximate cause of both crises.

www.ncregister.com

And yet Vatican Catholicism and Canterbury Anglicans seem to be doing swimmingly together while the Catholic Church fractures and the Anglicans fade away.

Oh, and Orthodoxy is in shambles over Russia’s war.

The regrettable thing In all this is that Fiducia supplicans is likely a torpedo to Orthodox-Catholic relations.