Question by Fundy Patrol: Is it strange that Anglicans have been more conservative in some matters of theology than Catholics have?
Anglicans may be more socially liberal, but examples of where they’ve been more in keeping with the ancient church include- infant Eucharist, manner of administering sacraments, and real presence.
Infant Eucharist is a practice that the Roman church stopped, but the eastern church never did. England re-instituted it.
Real presence is the older view of the Eucharist, leaving it a mystery, and not transubstantiation.
Also the Bishops recently voted to remove the filioque from the creed, returning to the more ancient usage.
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Answer by Tolstoyevsky
You are in error. Or psychotic. I’m still not certain.
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You seem to have some mistaken ideas.
1. The Catholic Church as 23 rites, and 22 of them still practice infant reception of the Eucharist. Only the Latin Rite changed it to the “age of reason.”
2. Real presence = transubstantiation. And since the Anglicans broke off communion with the Catholic Church, none of their priests have any sort of authority or valid consecration that would enable them to actually administer the true Body and Blood of Christ.
3. The filioque is such a minor issue, especially in light of the Anglican’s numerous errors in other issues of greater importance, I can’t see why it matters.
It’s nice to see
Catholics still practice infant eucharist, only the Latin rite stopped. The Pope can reinstitute it at any time.
mystery thing is only around 500 years old.
removal of filioque means being conservative? LOL yeah along with all the gay rainbow flags. Anglican church is a joke. It’s called the gay male social club in my town because only men go inside and police are constanty called because of anal sex occuring in the parking lot.
Oh no, not the filioque.