The [Philippine Independent Church] in the US, like the PIC in the Philippines, was actually split between two groups each claiming to have the legitimate Obispo Maximo (or Supreme Bishop)...a pro-American Anglo-Catholic group led by Macario V. Ga and the larger nationalista liberation theology group led by Bp. Ramento. They reunited the following year but in the meantime the Ga group (ARJA) had not four but actually ten or eleven bishops and a smattering of tiny parishes. Archbishop Ga was under the misconception that he had a thriving thing going in the States, a kind of continuum movement still in communion with Canterbury (he had been at Lambeth X in '68) so I had to write him and give a full report about what it really was: ten bishops eight of whom were out and out vigantes and at most three or four legitimate parishes.Seems like the more I hear about the Continuum, the smaller it gets.
"On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of the conditions. . . . It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews." -- Annie Dillard
Sunday, April 28, 2013
I'd Like To Get In Touch With Douglas Bess One Day
(can anyone help?), because I keep coming up with enlightening snippets of information on the various corners of the post-1977 Continuum. A source provides this on the Anglican Rite Jurisdiction in the Americas of the Philippine Independent Church: