Fr Charles:

Can't say for sure since I've never been to the churches you mention, but I would guess that if both you and I visited the same church at the same time, we might come away w/diff impressions.   While they may not be higher than an APA parish, they may appear quite high to an Evangelical.  Certainly there are exceptions (until recently, for example, St Andrew's in downtown Fort Worth), but  they are not the rule.

Nor am I damning all Anglo-Catholic practices.   It's just that I don't know anyone outside the Episcopal church, nor any Anglican Evangelical, who would say that the Episcopal church is in any way Anglo-Catholic-unfriendly.  I know MANY who would say it is very Evangelical-unfriendly.

mw


> Mark, 
> 
> I'm not sure what you have in mind when you refer to
> Anglo-Catholics.
> 
> In Cincinnati, Ohio, and 5 counties around, I found
> only one ECUSA parish that was Anglo Catholic in the
> past 35 years. Diocese of Southern Ohio (ECUSA), I
> suppose might be described as Broad Church or Low. 
> Some ECUSA Churches in Southern Ohio Diocese, in an
> effort to reach a younger constituency have adopted a
> community church format with infrequent Holy
> Communion.    
> 
> I am not as familiar with the Indianapolis area, but I
> have yet to find an ECUSA church here that is Anglo
> Catholic.
> 
> I suspect one could list on the fingers of one hand
> the cities in these United States where there is more
> than one Anglo-Catholic Ecusa parish.
> 
> How many are in the REC?  How do you define
> "Anglo-Catholic?"
> 
> Charles+
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Mark & Mary Woolsey <mark.mary@...> wrote:
> 
> > This is the first time I've heard Anglicans being
> > called "too  fundamentalist".  Definition I heard
> before I was an Anglican was that an  Episcopalian was
> just a Catholic w/o a pope.  At least in the US,
> Anglo-Catholics heavily outnumber
> > Anglo-Evangelicals.
> > 
> > Mark "the virus" Woolsey
> > 
> 
> 
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