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| bio | website | acleach.me.uk |
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| location | United Kingdom | |
| age | 47 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 2 months |
| seen | May 16 at 19:36 | |
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Former Anglican (in the Anglo-Catholic tradition from age 9), now a Roman Catholic in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the UK.
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Jan 7 |
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What is the biblical argument against Papal Succession? Up to the Great Schism, there wasn't! The Great Schism is quite a different matter, of course; as is the Reformation. |
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Jan 7 |
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What is the biblical argument against Papal Succession? @Narnian What answer do you expect to receive for the question? I have answered the question, "None"; and then gone on to demonstrate that there is none by looking at other sources. I could just have stopped at "None", because there isn't any argument against Succession to find; but I suspect that that would not have sufficed either! |
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Jan 7 |
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What is a Consistory? Is this Spanish or Italian? Or Latin? |
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Jan 6 |
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Why is “We Three Kings” a Christmas hymn, and not a Lenten one? I've used Bethlehem Down halfway between Epiphany and Lent in the past, to Peter Warlock's setting as a choir piece (rather than Sting). It's a useful turning-point from one to the other. |
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Jan 6 |
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How did Elizabeth know the name was “John” I guess that Zechariah did do something to explain his loss of speech to Elizabeth, including his verbal exchange with the angel and what the name of the child should be. It would be rather strange if a wife simply accepted her husband had become dumb and didn't want to know what had happened. |
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Jan 5 |
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Did John 14:6 apply before the birth of Christ? A prior question might be relevant here. |
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Jan 5 |
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Is communion service at the rail vs. in the pews a function of denomination or church size? A small note to relieve the uncertainty of paragraph two: in the Anglican churches of the Church of England additional ministers need to be proposed by the parish and approved by the bishop. There may be training involved too. |
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Jan 4 |
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Apostolic Succession in the Catholic church @svidgen Actually, apostolic succession means something completely different, as you have detailed in your answer. The question isn't about apostolic succession; it's "What about the other apostles -- Peter is Pope, where are the others?" The question title may have to be adjusted to remove the technical term. |
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Jan 3 |
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Apostolic Succession in the Catholic church Yes: a Patriarch is the head of a major part of the Catholic/Orthodox Church. The Coptic Pope is a Patriarch; there are Patriarchs in the East (and the Ecumenical Patriarch) and the Pope is the Patriarch of the Western Church, even if he doesn't call himself that at the moment. |
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Jan 3 |
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What is the basis for the practice of Intinction (the dipping of the bread into wine during the Eucharist)? Intinction is only a defence against disease if done circumspectly: the priest must intinct, being careful not to touch the wine with his fingers, and must then place the wafer directly on the tongue of the communicant, again being careful not to touch any part of the recipient. If the communicant intincts for himself, or the priest contaminates either himself or the wine, it is pointless. During the avian flu "epidemic" in the UK, the Church of England simply withheld the cup altogether. |
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Dec 9 |
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Why is “JESUS” in white on green? If it's any consolation, I didn't vote Too Localised, but that reason did have the most votes. I chose Off Topic. I suspect the reasoning about the colour goes something like: Red, too aggressive; Blue, too dark; Yellow, too light; Purple, too drab; Has to be green. Green's fairly neutral. |
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Dec 9 |
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Why is “JESUS” in white on green? I think this is actually a design question, not a theology question. |
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Dec 8 |
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To Arians and Jehovah's Witnesses: Does your theology admit that God was at one point ἄλογος? I think it's a bit far-fetched to claim that God without the Word was irrational, basing that premise entirely on the technicalities of Greek. It is a false logic. |
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Dec 6 |
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Why does the NWT capitalize “YOU” in many verses? I find it incredibly distracting. Capital YOU generally means emphasis, "Let each one of you be baptised" (rather than them in that group over there). |
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Nov 29 |
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Under what circumstances is a priest supposed to deny forgiveness to a person? One instance appears in an earlier answer of mine: "...It would be possible for a priest to withhold absolution from a penitent until she has reported any crime to the authorities herself. The priest may legitimately have doubts about the penitent's penitence until she accepts the consequences of her actions." |
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Oct 24 |
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Does God lie? And does devil tell the truth? Although I have a rather checkered history prior to being received into the Catholic Church, I can't see anything wrong here. One might perhaps recommend C S Lewis's Screwtape Letters in support of Point 2. |
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Oct 20 |
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Eating of which non-fish animals does not go against the dietery law of the Roman Catholic Church? I'm not convinced that the words you have emphasised allow a Conference to declare something which is obviously meat as non-meat. They allow the Conference to declare something non-meat to be treated as meat and therefore abstained from. |
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Oct 5 |
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How about the outside of the Garden of Eden? In that case, please expand it to make that clear. I refer you to my first comment. |
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Oct 5 |
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How about the outside of the Garden of Eden? Normally, duplicates appear in a highlight in the question space. In this case it's From where did Cain get his wife? -- as linked in Wiki's comment. Links are blue and not underlined. |
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Oct 5 |
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What does it mean for a priest 'to lose faith'? Would you believe... Islam |
