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Subject: OT but currently pertinent
Date: 3 Apr 2005 10:51:46 GMT
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Eve McLaughlin wrote in a message to Anne Heafield:

EM> From: Eve McLaughlin <>

EM> In article <d2kp15$2p75$1@arachne.labyrinth.net.au>, Anne Heafield
EM> <> writes
> I don't know what is taught in Catholic Church schools in other parts of
>the world, but here in Melbourne, Australia, we were certainly taught re the
>title of 'Defender of the Faith' given to Henry for continuing with the
>traditions of the Catholic Church,

EM> but are they also teaching the shenanigans which went on when he
EM> parted from the pope because he couldn't get his 'annulment' from
EM> Catherine?
>and please note that here in Australia we
>do not refer to ourselves as 'Roman Catholics' we are just 'Catholics'.

EM> This is what I would normally use, personally, but there is a view
EM> among some High Anglicans that they are 'Catholic' without
EM> allegiance to Rome. Rather a silly quibble, but it makes them
EM> happy.

As with the Orthodox, who believe that since the Roman Church broke away from
the Churches of Constantiniople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem in the 11th
century to go it alone, it is no longer Catholic.

Steve Hayes
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