David Virtue Says. . . .
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 05:27PM
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"Nonetheless the whole subject stirred a hornet's nest of opinion, with commentaries coming down mostly on the side of Robinson with some even suggesting it could blow up the ACNA! That is not going to happen.  Since 2009, the ACNA has lived with the 'two integrities' and that seems likely in the foreseeable future. In truth there is nowhere else for the Anglo-Catholic to go to. The Continuing Church groups are way too splintered amongst themselves to offer a safe haven for ACNA's traditionalist wing."  (Read the rest here.)

Funny, since the Continuum has received and continues to receive laity, clergy and parishes from ACNA.  The Orthodox Anglican Church North America, where I am canonically resident, has received several clergy and two parishes that I know of during the last 3 or 4 years.  There might be more.  I don't know how many the G3 provinces have received from the ACNA, but I know they have received some. 

Anglo-Catholics in the Anglican Communion also have the options of Rome and Orthodoxy.  Virtue's assertion that "there is nowhere else for the Anglo-Catholic to go to" is therefore patent nonsense.

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