Calgary: Anglican Church abandoned its parishioners

By Susan Martinuk
Calgary Herald
December 3, 2010

Clearly, all is not well within the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC).

In what could be termed a reverse protestant reformation, Calgary's St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church voted overwhelmingly (90 per cent) to leave the ACC and align itself with Pope Benedict and the Roman Catholic Church. As such, it becomes the first Anglican congregation in Canada to take the Pope up on his October 2009 offer to welcome disillusioned Anglican congregations into the Catholic Church.

But that's where the 'new' news ends because St. John the Evangelist is not, by far, the first church to leave the ACC. In fact, it's only the most recent departure in a decade-long struggle between conservative Anglican parishes and their increasingly liberal leaders. the rest

In the words of one longtime Anglican member, who has watched this developing story with great interest, "It seems to me to be such a mistake to water down our core principles so greatly that we are not actually required to believe anything."