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Entry: Theological Cannon Fodder Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/theological_cannon_fodder#18165 Post contents: American religion (or religions) is just English religion of the 17th Century – same styles, same diversity, same passions, same antagonisms. Even the non-churched are just backsliding Unitarians. Denominations with Continental roots quickly fit into the English pattern. Case in point: Catholics. Most are now Latitudinarians, who took over the C of E in 1688, the Mainline Protestants c. 1900, and the Catholic Church in 1968, the gringo RCIA a Broad Church movement. Low Church Catholics, since the 1990s, are put by the Broads into a ghetto (Charismatics, “Casuals”, Guitar Pluckers, and Teen/Family Masses). The rest of Low Church Catholics at the moment leave for No Church or the Protestant Low Churches. <i>Summorum pontificum</i> is now bringing back a High Church revival; call it the Oxford Movement of contemporary Catholics, meeting the same harsh resistance from Broad Church bishops and pastors. Sent at: 2009 01 08