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Farewell to Ecumenism
What a favour Pope Benedict XVI has done for Protestants in the Anglican Communion! Just this week he has announced a new Roman Catholic legal framework to receive the many thousands of Anglicans and former Anglicans who wish to enter into full visible communion with the Roman Catholic Church. These Anglicans, known historically as Anglo-Catholics, have received the news with great delight. They're not the only ones. Theologically liberal Anglicans will welcome the departure of a major obstacle to their unscriptural agenda of women bishops and gay clergy. Evangelical Protestants within the Anglican Communion should also welcome the departure of a group that has for a long time distorted the true nature of Anglicanism.
Ireland needs Protestants
Ireland needs Protestants! That's the message being sent out by the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. John Neill, in the light of the recent cut in funding to Protestant schools in the Republic of Ireland. Irrespective of the debate over cuts in school grants, the Archbishop is right - Ireland needs Protestants. But what sort of Protestants? What is a Protestant anyhow, and is the Church of Ireland Protestant?
Alexander Dallas and founding of the ICM
Why did he found it? What were the motivations of Dallas? He himself in a letter to a friend in 1850, a year after ICM had been founded, said that he aimed at ‘nothing less than the Protestantizing of Ireland’ [1] What did he mean by that?
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