{"id":24470,"date":"2016-10-14T10:03:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24470"},"modified":"2016-10-14T10:06:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:06:55","slug":"fred-hiltz-meets-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/fred-hiltz-meets-the-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Hiltz meets the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Along with Justin Welby, Fred Hiltz met the Pope recently to discuss unity between Anglicans and Catholics. It\u2019s odd that Hiltz felt he needed to travel 7000kms to talk about a \u201cunited witness to the gospel\u201d<\/em> when he could have taken the GO train 30kms to talk about the same thing with Anglican Network in Canada leaders.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"hiltz-pope\"But there is a growing desire in both churches to see unity as more than an end in itself, said Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, reflecting on his recent trip to Rome.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe unity of the church is not for the church itself, and if it is, we might as well stop talking,\u201d Hiltz said in an interview.<\/em> \u201cThe unity of the church has to be in the interest of a common and faithful and united witness to the gospel, and the gospel is clearly for the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For further confirmation that the whole exercise was little more than a posturing sham, we need look no further than the fact that the latest divisive antics of the ACoC were not even discussed:<\/p>\n

For example, the Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s move toward solemnizing the marriages of same-sex couples puts it at odds with Roman Catholic teachings on marriage. However, Hiltz said it was not an issue that came up for him or for any of the leaders of provinces that have made similar decisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no kind of public calling into question the integrity of the Canadian church, or The Episcopal Church, or the Scottish Episcopal Church,\u201d he said. \u201cThe focus was elsewhere.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Along with Justin Welby, Fred Hiltz met the Pope recently to discuss unity between Anglicans and Catholics. It\u2019s odd that Hiltz felt he needed to travel 7000kms to talk about a \u201cunited witness to the gospel\u201d when he could have … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}