UK Anglo Catholics Tell Church of England This Isn't Your Property

The Telegraph has Bishop accuses liberals of planning to 'steal churches' . Several good points including

The Rt Rev John Broadhurst, Bishop of Fulham and chairman of Forward in Faith, said today that any attempt to wrest control of buildings from Anglo-Catholics would be "institutionalised theft". Many of the churches came either from the pre-Reformation Catholic Church or were founded by Anglo-Catholics, he added.

Let me add many Catholics would like to those "pre reformation" properties back that were stolen from us too :)

It is quite apparent that we are being subjected to what I would call institutional bullying of a kind that if it were found in the commercial world would be the subject of serious litigation. The atmosphere and the approach of some of those opposed to us reveals that not only are they not very good Christians; they are also not nice human beings.

"The other thing that strikes me quite hard is that most of the assets of the Church of England in terms of buildings, schools and other property either come from the pre-Reformation Catholic Church or as a direct result of the Tractarian and Catholic Revival. This property is very much our heritage(and Catholics too) and inheritance(DITTO) and to suggest that many wish to steal it from us in a very unpleasant form of legalised theft would not be an understatement. I know that many people will be looking at the legal implications lying behind both these matters."

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