This morning I was reading Anglicanorum Coetibus (the latest from the Vatican on disaffected Anglicans) at the breakfast table. That may have been a mistake.
The first page confirmed in my mind how silly the pronouncements from old men wearing dresses and red slippers can be. In a nutshell, the Roman Catholic Church is the one true church. There may be other things out there that call themselves churches but they are misguided. They do recognize that there are expressions of sanctification and truth beyond the confines of the Roman Catholic Church but that these expressions "properly belong" to the Roman Catholic Church.
Really.
I would have thought that they belong to God but clearly, the Roman Catholic hierarchy feels that they are above God and can tell God what is what. Somehow that's not funny.
The funny part was in the discussion of how they would be putting together the Anglican Ordinariates. They could have chosen the word "make". They could have chosen "create". Nope. They chose to "erect" the ordinariates, each within a particular Conference of Bishops. That's going to be a lot of erections!
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