Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!mephisto!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: bcsaic!carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Carroll) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: In communiion with Rome? Message-ID: Date: 20 Sep 90 08:01:53 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article norcio@afn.ifsm.umbc.edu (A. F. Norcio) writes: >(For the sake of accuracy, I must point out that these are the only >rites that are recognized by the Catholic Church; in recent years >the Episcopal Church has started referring to itself as the Anglican >Catholic Church or the Anglican Rite of the Catholic Church. This >terminology is unique the Episcopal Church. The Catholic Church does >not recognize the Episcopal Church as a rite in the Catholic Church >and the Catholic Church does not recognize the validity of Episcopal >clergy as priests and does not consider Episcopal bishops as bishops >and does not consider their sacaraments as valid.) No. The Anglican Catholic Church is a group in schism from the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (also known as The Episcopal Church.) Another such group is known as the Anglican Orthodox Church. Yet another group is known (I believe) as the Anglican Episcopal Church. All are in some sense in communion with the Episcopal Church, since the EC has open communion; but none is in communion with Canterbury, which recognizes the Episcopal Church as the only province of the Anglican Communion in the United States. Jeff Carroll carroll@atc.boeing.com