A VISIT TO THE VATICAN - Canon Phil Ashey
March 5, 2014
https://americananglican.org/
Dear Friends in Christ,
I have been privileged to spend this week in Rome, Italy, from where I am writing you today. I have been here as part of studies I am taking in Canon Law through Cardiff University (Wales UK), which includes interaction between Anglican and Roman Catholic canon lawyers. It has been a magnificent time listening to and seeking to understand the Roman Catholic system of “grace and justice” through the laws and court systems of the Church. I have visited the highest courts of the Roman Catholic Church– the Roman Rota and the Apostolic Signatura.
I have been blessed to find common ground with Roman Catholic judges and canonists who share the same fundamental convictions that we do: namely, that the law of the church (Canon law) necessarily rests upon God’s Divine Law (the Bible) and natural law. In other words canon law is neither a law unto itself nor an end in itself. It must conform in purpose and practice to God’s revelation in Scripture, God’s salvation purposes through Jesus Christ, and God’s design for a people set apart for his purposes– the Church.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
March 5, 2014
https://americananglican.org/
Dear Friends in Christ,
I have been privileged to spend this week in Rome, Italy, from where I am writing you today. I have been here as part of studies I am taking in Canon Law through Cardiff University (Wales UK), which includes interaction between Anglican and Roman Catholic canon lawyers. It has been a magnificent time listening to and seeking to understand the Roman Catholic system of “grace and justice” through the laws and court systems of the Church. I have visited the highest courts of the Roman Catholic Church– the Roman Rota and the Apostolic Signatura.I have been blessed to find common ground with Roman Catholic judges and canonists who share the same fundamental convictions that we do: namely, that the law of the church (Canon law) necessarily rests upon God’s Divine Law (the Bible) and natural law. In other words canon law is neither a law unto itself nor an end in itself. It must conform in purpose and practice to God’s revelation in Scripture, God’s salvation purposes through Jesus Christ, and God’s design for a people set apart for his purposes– the Church.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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