The branches gnarl and twist on Mother Church's Family Tree

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Having untensed and caught up on my sleep, I now think, y'know... if Anglican bishops can be lured back into the catholic fold by a promise that they won't have to change with the times, if all they care about is the rituals and trappings, then good riddance to them. They're just holding the Church of England back. Once the chaff has deserted the grain, maybe the UK Anglicans can catch up to the North American Anglicans, who love women _and_ gay people. Let's go for quality, not quantity. Meanwhile this fake-anglican thing the Pope's set up is probably intrinsically unstable, and the chaff will eventually find themselves pressured to assimilate in with the regular catholics, or else they'll split off again and be yet another slice of the already finely diced pie that is the Christian churches of the Western world, accomplishing nothing except having successfully resisted having to accomplish anything.

Disclaimer: the preceeding has been opinion and educated conjecture. No statement of intent is intended, no particular expert knowledge of church politics is claimed, and I am well aware that it is not my place to judge who is grain and who is chaff in the eyes of the Lord.