Logorrhea

Money, opiate of the Age

So, it seems my hoped for revolution will be slow in coming. One of the problems will be that if a church decides to leave their diocese they will also lose their building. Most dioceses have large legal funds to spend on suing their fellow Christians. Another reason for the delay is that the consequences of having a woman PB won’t fully be felt until she starts ordaining other bishops and priests (therefore breaking the Apostolic Succession, and invalidating the orders of everyone thereafter, including male priests). Most priests I feel will be content with their current bishops until their retirement; (which over half of the priests in the US will be eligible for in the next ten years). This is very disheartening for me because I will be the inheritor of not only a broken church (which is what I expected) but not even a church. For this I can only blame the “catholic” priests who are willing to wait so as not to threaten their pensions. For if we could organize enough catholic priests and churches we could put more pressure on the dioceses to not sue (being not only unchristian but finically irresponsible) and perhaps work out an agreement. For years in the courts could be just as costly to the diocese as the loss of a church. But are there really enough orthodox churches out there? (Probably not and certainly not in the diocese of Maryland). It always comes down to money doesn’t it? And so the doom of catholic Anglicanism in the Episcopal Church. Another option, which is more likely, is a Free Province under a separate PB. But, I have to admit that I have even thought about “swimming the Tiber.” Heaven forbid. I just hope that Orthodox bishops (like ++Ackerman) will be able to work something out with the Archbishop of Canterbury.