On Moderation
By Fr. Benedict Kiely St. John Henry Newman discovered, after much study, prayer. and pain, that the Anglo-Catholic, or Tractarian, concept of the Anglican Church as a via media between Catholicism and Protestantism, was ultimately a house built on sand, without foundation. There is still a small minority within that communion that advances the thesis. But with both female clergy, and now a woman occupying the throne of St. Augustine in Canterbury, that embattled band is like King Cnut vainly attempting to hold back the waves of the ocean. An old joke, perhaps a little unkind, saw that the…
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