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FROM: D. Philip Veitch
TO: pbossi-smedley@cdow.org, karl.adler@archny.org, sbrosnan@archcare.org, adapp@adnyschools.org, bicentennial@archny.org, obm@archny.org, kevin.obrien@archny.org
Dear Sirs:
I have sent an open
letter to ABP Malooly of Delaware. However, I do not have Cardinal Dolan's
address. I hope someone will forward this to him. The same petition put to ABP
Malooly is more widely disseminated.
Respectfully,
Donald
Philip Veitch
From: D. Philip Veitch <reformationtoday@yahoo.com>
To: "pbossi-smedley@cdow.org"
Cc: Philip Veitch
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:35 PM
Subject: Open Letter to VP Biden's ABP Malooly: Call for Church Discipline
To: "pbossi-smedley@cdow.org"
Cc: Philip Veitch
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:35 PM
Subject: Open Letter to VP Biden's ABP Malooly: Call for Church Discipline
Dear Ms. Bossi-Smedley:
Will you please forward this
to the Archbishop?
Thank you very much.
Respectfully,
Donald Philip Veitch
Donald Philip
Veitch
125 Kemberly
Court
Jacksonville,
North Carolina 28540
reformationtoday@yahoo.com 910-265-8939
10 May 2012
Most
Reverend W. Francis Malooly, D.D.
c/o
Patricia Bossi-Smedley, Administrative Assistant
1925
Delaware Avenue
Wilmington,
DE 19889
302-573-3100
Dear Archbishop Malooly:
I write as a well educated Anglican Churchman. I’ve done my time in the books and graduate schools. I am retired and read for a living.
While we have profound and unbridgeable doctrinal differences, we share immoveable commitments in the area of conception, life, abortion, marriage, and human sexuality. In vivid contrast to these shared views between us, I have in mind the beliefs, actions and public words of Mr. Joseph Biden, the Vice President of the United States of America.
Sir, if Mr. Biden belonged to my congregation over which I presided, he would be placed under “church discipline”and would be refused access to the holy sacrament of the Eucharist or, as Reformed Anglicans prefer to say, the “Order for Holy Communion.”
I write as a well educated Anglican Churchman. I’ve done my time in the books and graduate schools. I am retired and read for a living.
While we have profound and unbridgeable doctrinal differences, we share immoveable commitments in the area of conception, life, abortion, marriage, and human sexuality. In vivid contrast to these shared views between us, I have in mind the beliefs, actions and public words of Mr. Joseph Biden, the Vice President of the United States of America.
Sir, if Mr. Biden belonged to my congregation over which I presided, he would be placed under “church discipline”and would be refused access to the holy sacrament of the Eucharist or, as Reformed Anglicans prefer to say, the “Order for Holy Communion.”
I realize the liberal Episcopal Church, as are other
mainliners, are afoul, defanged, and retrograde on important issues.
When we will Roman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops
exercise disciplinary influences on persons under their cognizance, such as Mr.
Biden? Or, Ms. Pelosi?
Aside from Roman
Catholic churches, I suggest the same for all Confessional and Creedal
churches: church discipline for these leaders who mislead, fail and, by turns,
subvert the next generation by silence, inconsistency, and relativism.
This applies to two issues: (1) abortion and (2) homoerotic marriages.
This applies to two issues: (1) abortion and (2) homoerotic marriages.
The time has come to take stands, as did St. Ambrose of
Milan with Theodosius 1 and the genocidal and unjustifiable homocides at
Thessalonica, Greece? Sir, as theologians, we know of Ambrose’s
Will you, Sir, be a
modern Ambrose?
It is time for Creedal Churchmen to take a stand.
The next generation needs to hear not silence, but appropriate words.
It is time for Creedal Churchmen to take a stand.
The next generation needs to hear not silence, but appropriate words.
Respectfully,
Donald Philip Veitch
Donald Philip Veitch
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