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Anglo-Catholicism
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Anglo-Catholicism

In the Anglican Church, the Catholic heritage of faith and liturgical practice which was stressed by the founders of the Oxford Movement. The term was first used in 1838 to describe the movement, which began in the wake of pressure from the more Protestant wing of the Church of England. Since the Church of England voted in 1992 to ordain women as priests, some Anglo-Catholics have found it difficult to remain within the Church of England.



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Perhaps it's because Adams has written her book for a lay or non-Anglican audience, but she does not really attempt to connect the current crisis with much of anything in the church's past, other than (misleadingly) the 1970s fight over ordination of women and prayerbook revision, which split Anglo-Catholics and Anglo-evangelicals into "conservative" and "liberal" camps.
Cross purposes: gay bishops, Henry VIII, and the split in the ... by Kilgore, Ed / Washington Monthly
I propose a simple answer: in the 1940s, '50s and early '60s, when Lewis' influence was at its zenith, it was still possible to regard the Church of England (particularly in its high church or Anglo-Catholic manifestations) as part of that "one holy, catholic and apostolic church" that all Christians who recite the creed profess to believe in.
C. S. Lewis and Anglicanism by Hunter, Ian / Catholic Insight
Francis' Web site, the American branch was formed in 1977 "to preserve traditional Anglo-Catholic doctrine and forms of worship in the face of rampant changes in liturgy, morality and order by liberals within the church.
Arctic dean adds fundraiser to unusual resume by De Santis, Solange / Anglican Journal
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