Calvin Robinson joins Mark and Katherine to discuss the Ecumenical prayer event between Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III, the danger of Lukewarm faith, what both Catholics and Anglicans are to make of it and the recent news that the US Anglican Archbishop has been accused of sexual misconduct and abuse of power.
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History was made, we’re told, when Leo XIV prayed with King Charles in the Sistine Chapel beneath Michelangelo’s Last Judgment. A painting of divine separation was asked to bless a human merger. The event was framed by creation talk and Ambrosian hymnody translated by Newman, because nothing coats ecumenism like a thin layer of patina. Honors were exchanged like diplomatic souvenirs. Charles received the Pius IX collar; Camilla, the Dame Grand Cross. Pius IX, who condemned liberal Catholicism and modern religious indifferentism, was pressed into service for the court of green religion. You couldn’t script a cleaner inversion.
When the “supreme governor” of Anglicanism prays a liturgy with Rome in the very chapel where conclaves are sealed, the message is unmistakable. The Reformation is not healed; it is historicized, like a quarrel in the family scrapbook. Meanwhile Catholic doctrine on marriage becomes a social courtesy. The ribbon around Camilla’s decoration looks tighter than the annulment process ever was.
Thousands of martyrs massacred by the anti-Catholic fury of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I and Charles II must be wondering – incredulous – how it is possible that the current successor of Clement VII communicates in sacris with the head of the Church of… pic.twitter.com/Pg5S3C1gv2
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