What the fuck is this now!? It seems that there’s a serious senior faction within the Church of England (that’s Anglicans to the rest of us) who are conspiring to hook up again with the Roman Catholic Church – 500 years after the initial split between Pope Clement VII and Henry VIII that ignited a shitfire which has raged ever since. Particularly so in places like Northern Ireland.

This is fucking spectacular! And a big thrust behind the initiaive is tied up with the possible ordination of female Anglican bishops.

Clergy on the “high church” wing of Anglicanism, known for their use of more elaborate ritual in services, are alarmed that the Church of England’s historic role in uniting Catholic and Protestant in the same Church may now be in jeopardy.

Father Geoffrey Kirk, one of the leaders of Forward in Faith, said: “It will be my intention whatever happens to become a Roman Catholic.

“I am close to retirement, and I may well choose to defer my retirement in order to see that my parish transfers itself to the Roman jurisdiction, as well as myself.”

I think in this day and age this was inexcusable that Rome decided to do this without consultation

As the dispute in the CoE about women bishops has intensified, many “Anglo-Catholics” have warned they will transfer to the Roman Catholic Church unless they are given guaranteed access to male alternatives.

So much for divorce, female clergy, clerical celibacy and marriage, contraception, kiddyfiddling and transubstantiation. Let’s not fool ourselves – these are serious differences. None more so than the literal valmorification of Provita into messiah tartare which the Anglicans wisely (in the loosest sense possible) choose to ignore.

Utter bollocks. If ever there was a more glaring reminder that this whole con is man-made (I’ll ignore the countless other glaring reminders we deal with every day), surely this must be it?

If you disagree, you’re basically just a [click].

I figure this has got to be the biggest rebound in dating history. I wonder what late-night drunken text triggered it all?

More here from the New York Times.