A couple of quick questions on my way for a day in the big city (San 
Antonio):  Who do you suppose ordained/consecrated St. Paul? (Even the 
Council of Trent held that a "bishop" is a from of the "priesthood."  In the 
Middle Ages, the average parishioner rarely, if ever, saw a bishop.)  How 
can true Anglicans be divorced from the Reformation?  To use RC terminology, 
are not extreme "Anglo-Catholics"--transsubstantion, Mariolatry, relics, et. 
al-- simply "heretics" from post-Reformation Anglican "tradition."   Holy 
Scripture, I submit,  is the "apostolic tradition."  Interpretations by 
emperors, popes, councils very much resemble precedents set by our Supreme 
Court.   Just as slavery was for generations upheld by our Supreme Court, so 
for centuries European institutions--most especially the Church of Rome as 
the dominant institution--uphold serfdom and "the divine right of Kings." 
The Reformation certainly overturned many theological precedents and 
imaginative accretions that were "not proved by Holy Writ,"  just plain 
superstitious or wrong.  X  Regards.  KnoxDuncan@...