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Entry: Theological Cannon Fodder Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/theological_cannon_fodder#18166 Post contents: <I>American religion (or religions) is just English religion of the 17th Century – same styles, same diversity, same passions, same antagonisms.</I> Tell that to Bishop Benedict Fenwick, S.J. who, in 1827, wrote in his diary about visiting the injuns in Maine where the Passamaquoddies processed from their village to the Church singing hymns in their own tongue. After Mass he visited their camp and heard them sing Vespers. <I> Denominations with Continental roots quickly fit into the English pattern. Case in point: Catholics.</I> Balderdash. Catholics were ghettoised until yesterday. <I>Most are now Latitudinarians, who took over the C of E in 1688, the Mainline Protestants c. 1900, and the Catholic Church in 1968,</I> So, the Pope and the Bishops are Latitudinarians? <I>the gringo RCIA a Broad Church movement.</I> Is this Irish-Algonquin a "gringo?" Where did you come from and where do you life and what is it that causes you to call men like me gringo? <I> 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> The Church has always consisted of a divers group of folks. You, sadly, either do not know that or think yourself superior to the poor nose-pickers deluded by a Hierarchy you clearly can't stomach. High Church indeed. Sent at: 2009 01 08