Re: "Drakon" by S. M. Stirling

On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 23:15:12 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:25:58 +1000, "Gary R. Schmidt"
<grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:
>

What makes the claim eye-brow-raising is that Bishop Strachan
was very very Anglican, whereas my mother's family were very
very Catholic. How you bridge godless heretics to Catholics,
I don't know.
>

By setting fire to all the Anglicans' homes?  ;)
 

Sufficiently High Anglican is doctrinally only slightly different to
Roman Catholic.
>
Simply replace all uses of the word "Pope" with "Monarch of England" and
add in the bit about divorce being allowed.  ;-)

>
Last time I attended a Catholic church was for a mass in honor of my
late wife (organized by my very very Catholic mother-in-law). I was
astonished how much of the liturgy I knew from memory since I know the
Anglican prayer book somewhat well.

Unless something has radically changed, the Lutheran liturgy might
also be oddly familiar.

After all, it was originally the "German Mass". Which was basically
the Latin Mass with the objectionable (to Luther) bits removed.

(It's been suggested that when the Catholic church put the liturgy
from Latin to English - which was around the time of Vatican II - they
used the Book of Common Prayer as a model...since they admired the
"flow" of the Anglican liturgy if not the content)

Most of the content was probably pretty familiar to them. It was,
after all, an English translation of the Latin Mass, purged of any
elements deemed objectionable.

The liturgy has been around a long long time.

Non-liturgical groups, of course, rolled their own.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"