| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Church in SR |
| Date: | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:27:10 +0200 |
street was...
> Actually, you don't have to be Catholic to be a Bishop. I'm no expert, but
> don't the Anglican's have most of the original Roman Catholic titles still
> in use? When England broke with Rome, basically, they retained all the
> trappings, procedures, structure, etc of Roman Catholicism with the one
> exception that England's monarch now became the head of the Church rather
> than the Pope.
Technically, that makes them Protestants because they broke away from
Catholicism; in practice, though, spotting the difference between a Church
of England service and a Catholic service is very difficult to the layman
(e.g., me :)
> Probably the same kind of thing with Westphalia.
>
> And I don't know anything about Westphalia except what I have read here, but
> from the information provided, and from what I know about Catholicism in SR,
> I would guess that the Westphalians were originally Catholic.
Just about all the German sourcebooks mention when it comes to Westphalia
and religion is the German-Catholic church.
> For that matter, they may still consider themselves to be true Roman
> Catholics even if Rome no longer recognizes them. Either they were
> Catholics who broke with Rome over ideological differences, or Rome
> broke with them because of their "aberrant" behavior.
I can't find a mention of that (either way) while quickly reading through
Deutschland in den Schatten and Chrome & Dioxin, but it could well be
true.
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