{"id":4072,"date":"2009-05-06T15:48:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2009-05-06T15:48:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:48:35","slug":"allow-me-to-introduce-my-church-the-entity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/allow-me-to-introduce-my-church-the-entity\/","title":{"rendered":"Allow me to introduce my Church, the Entity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0 ACoC house of bishops loves, with gracious restraint, to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.anglican.ca\/news\/stories\/2051\" target=\"_blank\">take a dig<\/a> at ANiC. Here is the first one, wherein ANiC is not only an Entity, but an Entity that is given to Self Identification. The intent of using the word <em>entity<\/em> is to emphasise that the ACoC views ANiC as <em>separate <\/em>from the Anglican Communion, even though it isn\u2019t; and <em>self identify<\/em> implies an identity that is not recognised by others \u2013 whereas ANiC <em>is <\/em>recognised by the majority of the world\u2019s Anglicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In response to a call for clarification of the status of entities who self identify as being Anglican, it was noted that the Archbishop of Canterbury has stated in writing that his office and the Anglican Communion Office recognize one ecclesial body in Canada as a constitutive member of the Communion, The Anglican Church of Canada. We affirm this statement. We cherish our Communion with the See of Canterbury and remain committed to the life and witness of the Anglican Communion in the service of the Gospel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dig number two is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The House, responding to a question from the National Cursillo Secretariat, discussed the relationship with the Anglican Network in Canada, particularly as it related to leadership in Cursillo. It was noted that diocesan bishops have the authority to decide who may serve on Cursillo leadership teams. The House, with regret, is of the opinion that clergy and laity who are members of the Anglican Network in Canada (ANIC) should not be given permission to exercise a leadership role in the Cursillo Movement of the Anglican Church of Canada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An act of pettiness odd in its particular singling out of Cursillo.\u00a0 Although I am not too familiar with Cursillo, my understanding is that other denominations are routinely allowed lead Cursillo groups.<\/p>\n<p>These messages brought to you by the Ministry of Inclusion at the Anglican Church of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0 ACoC house of bishops loves, with gracious restraint, to take a dig at ANiC. Here is the first one, wherein ANiC is not only an Entity, but an Entity that is given to Self Identification. The intent of using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/allow-me-to-introduce-my-church-the-entity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,53],"tags":[2032,2059],"class_list":["post-4072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-bishops-gone-wild","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-bishops-gone-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072","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=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}