Religion Macros

First. Benedict XVI confirmed and clarified that the Church of Christ "subsisted in" the Catholic Church:

( lol!benedict )

And then there was the protestant response (text by deliriumdriver):

( protestant lolcat )

It does seem a little silly to get too upset with the RCC positioning itself as the One True Church, even if it offends my pluralist sensabilities (which are not so relativistic--or relativistic at all, really--as to keep from making the claim that the RCC, and all churches, should embrace religious pluralism--and note that any religious pluralism which cannot accept atheism as an equally valid path is a sucky sort of pluralism). Although if anyone has the right to be offended, it's us (we, for prescriptivists) in the Anglican Communion who do consider ourselves to have maintained apostolic sucession. (I'm assuming ECUSA has maintained apostolic succession through the C of E?) One can understand my parish priest being a little miffed, as he was (more in sorrow than in anger).

But that spite happened over a hundred years ago; this is nothing more than rubbing salt in an old wound.

Saepius Officio: Answer of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to the Bull Apostolicae Curae of H. H. Leo XII. On English Ordinations. Dated February 19, 1897. The formal response of the Church of England to the first official establishment of the Catholic position on the legitimacy of the Anglican ministration of the sacrament of holy orders and, by extension, all the other sacraments (since they all require a priest).