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Five Female Episcopalian Bishops (Katherine Jefferts Schori -- Presiding Bishop of entire USA on far left).

Roman Catholic Pope with Bishops

Which would YOU say is more in "FULL HALLOWEEN"???

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This man is not a pastor, he needs to be put out to pasture where they can take care of him. Who does his man worship?

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Alan Hayes We have too many nuts posing as "pastors"

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Darlene Bridger Brown I have 2 words for this guy.

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Scott Kenan Ansley, while I nearly always support your comments, I must also point out that it is a little LATE to suddenly try to police the ranks of Christians now, when so many promote hate. I left the Catholic Church, first, over the communion, which like Episcopalian, is claimed to literally be eating Jesus' flesh, or cannibalism. That did not square with logic OR love to me, and indoctrinating people with fanciful illogic claiming it TRUTH is how to jellify one' ability to promote God's Gift of Reason. They say, "Better late than never!!!" however . . .

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Darlene Bridger Brown Episcopalians do NOT believe the literal translation (sic) involving communion. We take communion to recreate the Last Supper and to acknowledge the body and blood of Christ as His sacrifice. As Robin Williams said, we don't check our brains at the door.

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Scott Kenan Darlene is so confused she doesn't know her own church's teaching!!! It is published on Episcopal Church USA's official website IN FINE PRINT, because even Church Leaders find it embarrassing, although it is the reason Roman Catholics are allowed to take Episcopal communion, but it is a Mortal Sin for Catholics to take any other Christian Communion. Woman, SHAME ON YOU for denying your chosen church's teachings!!!

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Darlene Bridger Brown I don't care what you read or where you saw it. I know what our church believes and what we teach. Stop by any time, we'd be happy to share our beliefs with you. We may even let you take communion.

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Darlene Bridger Brown And, I grew up Catholic and went to Catholic school for 13 yrs, we were not allowed to take communion in any church at the time. I don't know what they do now. Episcopalians welcome any Christian to the rail.

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Scott Kenan Darlene, you are clearly more evolved than your Church, like most NOT wealthy Episcopalians -- and Catholics too, for that matter (and the others). I'm 63 and you are right about that old rule -- but it was done away with for Episcopalians about 25 years ago when the Catholic Church finally declared the Anglican Church had DIRECT DESCENT OF JESUS' AUTHORITY THROUGH ITS BISHOPS TOO, and Episcopal priests also successfully perform transubstantiation.

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You are absolutely correct about the welcoming nature of Episcopalians!!! I joined that church (not officially -- but by weekly worship), in the early 1980s in Atlanta (All Saints), and stopped when I considered it was the same "flesh and blood" as Catholic communion.
Today, the Catholic Church accepts even MARRIED Episcopal priests as ordained, and with slight modifications, employs them as Catholic priests. I will find a link to the description on your Church's website -- and as an educated woman, I'm sure you would like to get to the bottom of this too!!! Hold on a minute . . .
Darlene Bridger Brown http://www.ewtn.com/library/liturgy/zlitur328.htm

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Scott Kenan Well thanks for that, but WHY would you get a Catholic website's take on it when as a former Catholic you SURELY remember how Catholics like to ridicule Episcopalians for thinking they are more Catholic than God???

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Here is a direct quote from Episcopalian website as linked from Episcopal Church, USA pages: "Christ's body and blood are really present in the sacrament of the Eucharist and received by faith. " That is identical to Catholic terminology.
By the way, I have highest respect for most Episcopalians I know, and my Kenan relatives who founded UNC Chapel Hill, then inherited more of Standard Oil from Henry Flagler than Rockefeller ever owned (plus his Florida adventures and 40% ownership in US railroads when he died in 1913 -- leaving ALL of it to my Kenan relatives), left the Presbyterian Church of our forefathers for Episcopal because Sewanee, especially, is WHITE SUPREMACIST, after my family with First Presbyterian, Wilmington, NC CAUSED the 1898 Wilmington RACE RIOT, killing blacks and taking their elected offices, property, etc., and have given the Episcopal Church nearly $100,000,000.00 over the last 90 years, including several major pipe organs -- like the Kenan Organ at All Saints, ATL.
Only Tennessee Williams' (my former boss's) estate, now called The Dakin Fund. is a greater gift to the Episcopal Church, especially Sewanee, who had him murdered and then stole his estate with help of people I knew, One admitting to it, and Jackie Kennedy Onassis TOLD us they would do it (they learned that Tennessee planned to change it to go to Harvard), with help of the Republican Party and CIA, at a party January 11, 1982..
Disgruntled Sewanee lawyer alumni told me it was worth 1/3 billion at depth of Great Recession, but now nearly a BILLION. http://theweathercontinues.blogspot.mx/.../what-do...

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