FoCA UK ruffles Queen

George Pitcher:

I hear that Canon Chris Sugden may have somewhat spoilt his chances of a knighthood. The secretary to the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, which is this week busy fanning the embers of Anglican schism, went on Roger Boulton’s BBC Sunday programme and was asked whether it was true that The Queen had written to Canon Sugden and his traditionalist pals to say that “she understood their concerns”. Canon Sugden replied that this was “correct”.

“Sources close to the Palace”, as they say, have coughed lightly and raised an eyebrow to one another. That’s a courtier’s equivalent of being incandescent with rage.

Because Her Majesty said no such thing.

Read it all.

Thinking Anglicans continues to a great job of covering FoCA UK. His latest roundups are here and here.

Included in the former of the two:

Dave Walker at the Church Times blog has a selection of blog posts titled Anglo Catholics unimpressed by the FCA launch meeting.
From the latter roundup: Jonathan Bartley has written for Cif belief Evangelicals are betraying their heritage.
On Monday a new coalition of evangelical and Anglo-Catholic parishes launched within the Church of England, claiming to uphold the “traditional biblical view” on homosexuality.

But such a coalition was unlikely to be contemplated by evangelicals at many times gone by. For the original evangelical spirit with its reforming zeal and progressive outlook was more often at odds with traditionalists, than aligned with them.

Posted by John B. Chilton on July 8, 2009 5:31 PM | |
Comments (3)

My favorite part is that, while all that hubbub is going on in England, the ABC is over here hangin' out with all us libruls. I love it.

Posted by Clint Davis [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 8, 2009 7:51 PM

On what the Queen's letters mean see the comments here,

http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/003866.html#comments

Posted by John B. Chilton [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 8, 2009 9:46 PM

These kinds of letters of support are routine, usually written by a secretary. Prior to my parish's 50th anniversary celebrations, an invitation was sent to HM and the the ABC. They sent regrets and best wishes via their respective correspondence offices. And if media/journalists, even bloggers are picking up on this "story," and pushing it, they're falling for the FCA hype and should know better. Sudgen is being misleading and using HM for his own gain. Way overblown, but I have to laugh at people's ignorance and gullibility. - Jay Vos

Posted by dutchfox [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 9, 2009 4:35 AM

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