Fr Hunwicke's Liturgical Notes: Apostolic Constitution

Fr Hunwicke's Liturgical Notes: Apostolic Constitution

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Rev. Hunwicke is an Anglo-Catholic's Anglo-Catholic. An SSC-man we believe. He is quite happy about Rome's recent fishing trip with the offer of an ordinariate.

However, as we've long suspected, "other matters" are hand---practical matters, show-stoppers.

First, buildings and properties. Is a cash-strapped C o E simply going to allow the poaching and seizing of ancient buildings and churches?

Second, the average C o E cleric is paid 22,000 lbs/year. The Papist priest is paid 8,000 lbs/year. What will a Tractarian priest with a family do with such a pay cut?

We'll see where the principled men are. Knowing a little about human nature, we're aware of the power of buildings, money and control.

It's good to read an honest Anglo-Catholic who's not a mish-masher like Jack Leo Iker, Texas. We wish the latter would swim the Tiber, but alas, he'd have to be "re-ordained" most likely (or some equivalent since his orders are "invalid" and his sacramental services "invalid) and he'd have to surrender his "purple shirt" and episcopate. Is that likely? Nope.