Archivo etiqueta «Iglesia Anglicana»
Por Rafael Navarro-Valls, catedrático de la Universidad Complutense y autor del libro Entre la Casa Blanca y el Vaticano (EL MUNDO, 15/09/10):
Se advierte una cierta confusión en torno al viaje de Benedicto XVI al Reino Unido que mañana comienza. Mientras que para los ingenuos entusiastas éste es un plácido viaje comparado con los realizados por el Papa a Turquía o Israel, los maestros de la agresión defensiva han querido retratar esta visita prácticamente como una provocación del Vaticano, como un viaje a territorio hostil al estilo de Gaddafi en Roma, proclamando «que el islam ha de ser la … Seguir leyendo
By Lord Harries of Pentregarth, the former Bishop of Oxford and the author of the forthcoming Faith in Politics? (THE TIMES, 01/03/10):
There are many Catholic-minded Anglicans like me who have wondered, more than once whether we should become Roman Catholics. Rome is clearly the senior church of the Western tradition and I find so much to admire about it.
I rejoice in its internationalism, its capacity to produce saints in even the most unpropitious times and its ability to inspire poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, novelists such as Evelyn Waugh, and a number of distinguished modern composers.… Seguir leyendo
By Savitri Hesman. She was born in Sri Lanka and lives in London. She has worked for many years in the voluntary sector and contributed to several books and periodicals, and sometimes writes for the Ekklesia and LGCM websites (THE GUARDIAN, 07/12/09):
The election of Canon Mary D Glasspool as an Anglican bishop in the diocese of Los Angeles has been slated by some, praised by others. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, wants Episcopal church leaders to block her appointment, and has warned of “very important implications” if they do not. But to Giles Fraser, … Seguir leyendo
Por Hans Küng, catedrático emérito de Teología Ecuménica en la Universidad de Tubinga (Alemania) y presidente de Global Ethic. Traducción de Jesús Alborés (EL PAÍS, 30/10/09):
Es una tragedia: después de que el papa Benedicto XVI haya ofendido a musulmanes, protestantes y católicos reformistas, ahora le toca el turno a la Comunión Anglicana. Ésta comprende 77 millones de fieles y es, después de la Iglesia romana católica y la ortodoxa, la tercera confesión cristiana en número. ¿Qué ha ocurrido? Una vez conseguida la reincorporación a la Iglesia católica de la Fraternidad de San Pío X, hostil a la reforma, … Seguir leyendo
Par Hans Küng, théologien. Traduit par Pierre Deshusses (LE MONDE, 28/10/09):
[Publicado en El País bajo el título El pescador de hombres pesca en la derecha el 30/10/09]
En vrai drame : après avoir heurté de front les juifs, les musulmans, les protestants et les catholiques réformistes, voilà que le pape Benoît XVI s’en prend maintenant aux anglicans. Forte de 77 millions de membres, cette communauté chrétienne est la troisième en importance après l’Eglise catholique romaine et l’Eglise orthodoxe. Que s’est-il passé ?
Après avoir réintégré les disciples de la Fraternité Saint-Pie-X, le pape voudrait combler les rangs clairsemés … Seguir leyendo
By Hans Kung, a Swiss-German theologian and president of the Global Ethic Foundation (THE GUARDIAN, 28/10/09):
After Pope Benedict XVI’s offences against the Jews and the Muslims, Protestants and reform-oriented Catholics, it is now the turn of the Anglican communion, which encompasses some 77 million members and is the third largest Christian confession after the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox churches. Having brought back the extreme anti-reformist faction of the Pius X fraternity into the fold, Pope Benedict now hopes to fill up the dwindling ranks of the Catholic church with Anglicans sympathetic to Rome. Their conversion to … Seguir leyendo
By A. N. Wilson, the author, most recently, of the novel Winnie and Wolf (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 25/10/09):
The images and clichés came spluttering out of the laptops of church people and religious affairs correspondents on Tuesday: The pope has parked his tanks on the Church of England’s lawn; Rome has made a hostile takeover bid for Canterbury. It is understandable if people are at a loss for words, since the move has been made so decisively and so without warning. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, knew nothing of the plan until a few days ago.… Seguir leyendo
By Stephen Bates, a staff writer at The Guardian (THE GUARDIAN, 24/10/09):
Any high church men tempted by Pope Benedict XVI’s seductive offer this week to allow them to cross the Tiber to Rome, while remaining in some still unspecified way Anglicans, might do well to study the very small print before they leap.
The last remnants of those opposed to women’s ordination within the Church of England are a small rump who have made a habit of shouting very loudly for their rights to protection against the taint, or even touch, of women clergy; and many will … Seguir leyendo
By Edwin Barnes, the former Bishop of Richborough (THE TIMES, 21/10/09):
The latest move from the Roman Catholic Church to extend an American experiment comes not a moment too soon. Two of our Church of England provincial bishops (the “flying bishops” of Ebbsfleet and Richborough) met Cardinal William Levada in Rome some months ago, and believed an offer would be made towards Anglican Catholics. The Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, had said to me more than ten years ago that Rome would have to be generous to Anglicans who could not accept women bishops.
The offer to extend the … Seguir leyendo
By Tom Wright, bishop of Durham (THE TIMES, 15/07/09):
In the slow-moving train crash of international Anglicanism, a decision taken in California has finally brought a large coach off the rails altogether. The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church (TEC) in the United States has voted decisively to allow in principle the appointment, to all orders of ministry, of persons in active same-sex relationships. This marks a clear break with the rest of the Anglican Communion.
Both the bishops and deputies (lay and clergy) of TEC knew exactly what they were doing. They were telling the Archbishop of … Seguir leyendo
By Theo Hobson, a writer (THE GUARDIAN, 06/07/09):
It is good news that those Anglican parishes that are strongly opposed to homosexuality are forming a new movement. The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) was launched last year as a pressure group within the international Anglican communion, but only now is it trying to exert grassroots influence, raising awareness for its cause on the parish level. If it is successful, then it will be easy to identify the sexual politics of your local parish church. It will be impossible to deny that there is a church within the church, … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Jenkins (THE GUARDIAN, 04/07/08):
Those eager for small talk with Gordon Brown should try Scots Presbyterian schismatism, on which he is remarkably well informed. British rulers since the days of Trollope have found the politics of religion an absorbing relief from the trials of office. It usually means someone in even bigger trouble.
But the show has always stayed on the road through the remarkable tolerance of the Anglican community, “broad of church and broad of mind, broad before and broad behind”. From Anglo-Catholics to happy-clappies, old codgers to gays and lesbians, the ever benign Church of England … Seguir leyendo
By John Bryson Chane, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington DC, and a member of the Chicago Consultation, which works towards the full inclusion of gays and lesbians in the Anglican church (THE GUARDIAN, 26/06/08):
Archbishop Rowan Williams has tried to take the issue of gay marriage off the table at the Lambeth Conference, which begins in three weeks. But the celebration of a gay relationship at one of London’s oldest churches last month, and the well-publicised gathering of anti-gay Anglicans in Jerusalem this week, suggest the controversy must eventually be faced squarely.
Conservative Christians say opening marriage … Seguir leyendo
By Stephen Bates, the author of God’s Own Country: Power and the Religious Right in the USA (THE GUARDIAN, 24/06/08):
Maybe it’s being in a company of saints – a most un-Anglican communion of the like-minded. But the rhetoric of the gathering of conservative churchmen in Jerusalem seeking to wrest control of worldwide Anglicanism from the woolly nuances of Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the wicked, gay-friendly liberalism of the Church of England and US Episcopal Church is already spiralling upwards on a vicious current of hot air.
Two days into the great realignment, we’ve already … Seguir leyendo
By Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales (THE GUARDIAN, 02/04/08):
In an age when women have broken through the glass ceiling in most professions in Britain, it is strange that they still face discrimination in a church that believes there is “no male or female” in Christ. Women can become judges, surgeons, chief executives and heads of state, but in the Church in Wales – which waited until 1997 to ordain women as priests – they are as yet unable to become bishops.
I do not see how, having agreed to ordaining women to both the diaconate and priesthood, the … Seguir leyendo