Friday, July 25, 2008

Lambeth Diary: Anglican 'Holy Office'

http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/

[Times Online] 25 Jul 2008--The second observations document of the Windsor Continuation Group has just dropped. It gives more detail of the Principles of Canon Law Project, which we wrote about earlier and which is being talked of by primates as the 'Fifth Instrument of Communion'. I am told it will not be so much a Catholic-style 'Code of Canon Law' as a 'blueprint' of Canon Law. However, comparisons with the Roman Church will become even more inevitable because of another plan, to set up a new Faith and Order Commission.

This sounds extraordinarily like the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The WCG observations document says it will 'give guidance on the ecclesiological issues raised by our current crisis.' The CDF was of course formerly the Holy Office, or the Inquisition.

Related document:
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/14718/
COMPLETE TEXT of Windsor Continuation Group Preliminary Observations Part 2 (important) - Stand Firm

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