cassowary wrote: ↑Sat Aug 11, 2018 10:06 pm
neverfail wrote: ↑Sat Aug 11, 2018 3:42 pm
cassowary wrote: ↑Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:28 am
I visit Kiwiland fairly often. On one trip, a Kiwi told me that I am almost Kiwi.
He may be right too.

I have often contemplated that a Kiwi is very much like an Aussie Calvinist.
As a matter of fact, my Kiwi friend who made that remark is a lay priest of the Anglican Church
which is strongly influenced by John Calvin.
That must be Anglican LOW Church. High Church Anglicans are Catholics in all but name.
Recently when we were in Canada, our hostess introduced us to her (Catholic) parish priest: a former High Anglican priest who subsequently decided that his real vocation in life lay in being a (Roman) Catholic priest. The Pope had to grant him a special dispensation from the vow of lifelong celibacy a Catholic priest normally has to enter into so that he could remain married to the wife he had wedded whilst still an Anglican priest.
That man is not by any means the first to have followed that path into our Catholic ministry. The first Catholic Cardinal appointed by the Vatican to England since the Reformation (after the passage of the Catholic Emancipation bill passed through the British parliament in 1829, making such an appointment possible) John Henry Newman was likewise a High Anglican convert to the Catholic Church.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Newman
I hope that the High Church keeps on sending us their surplus, dissident priests like that. It has proven to be a rich source of (clerical) leadership talent for my church (in light of the worldwide chronic shortfall of religious vocations for the priesthood among Catholic men).
By the way Cass: if your friend is, as I believe, Low Church then he is a lay
minister. To my understanding, ordained priesthood is only for the Anglo-Catholics.

(Well, that's quite protestant, isn't it?)
cassowary wrote: ↑Sat Aug 11, 2018 10:06 pm
Anyway, I like Kiwis. They are nice people.
I suppose they are - as long as you are not Australian. Then they chuck all of their verbal shit at you.
