whats the difference between Anglican Catholicism and the roman catholic church?

Question

Any imformation welcome.

Answer 1

Anglican is English. It's basically the church that King Henry VIII started when he broke away from the Roman Catholic Church to divorce one of his wives.

The Roman Catholic Church is the original Church founded by Jesus through St. Peter. Matthew 16:18

Answer 2

Some Anglo-Catholics are almost indistinguishable from Roman Catholics. Others are more different.

Anglo-Catholics share a lot of beliefs with Roman Catholics. The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the communion of saints (which includes devotions to Mary and other saints), the seven sacraments, the sacrificial character of the priesthood and Mass, and the importance of bishops.

Many Anglo-Catholics also agree with Roman Catholicism about not ordaining women. Others do support women priests.

Anglo-Catholics often do things like go to confession, pray the rosary, and adore Christ in the Communion Host. Anglo-Catholic services often feature bells, incense, ornate vestments, and impressive music. An Anglo-Catholic Solemn High Mass is a lot more grand than most RC masses you'll see today.

Anglicans do have orders of monks and nuns, and some of them are Anglo-Catholic, though many are not. Anglo-Catholic priests who are not also monks are nuns can get married, but many still choose not to.

Some Anglicans, believe it or not, do believe in the supremacy of the Pope. Why they do not become RC is mystery to the rest of us.

I'm linking to an essay that provides one Anglo-Catholic theologian's perspective on how Roman and Anglican Catholics differ. But it's important to remember that Anglo-Catholics are very diverse.

Answer 3

Some interesting answers, some better than others!
The truth is that there is very little difference between Roman and Anglo Catholicism.
The biggest difference is that whilst the Anglo's do not recognise the supreme authority of the Pontiff, they do respect and pray for Him! The Roman Catholic Church officially states that the priesthood and sacraments of the Anglican Church are "completely null and utterly void", however since Vatican 2, relations between the two have become ever closer. The Anglo Catholics are not "pretend Catholics" - they adhere to the practises and edicts as laid down before the great split between East and West, therefore, they equally take on board Orthodox doctrines to a large extent. Please God, may we continue to narrow our differences and finally or once more obey the prayer of Christ that "they be all be one, as you (Father) and I are one".

Answer 4

The big differences are:
1.That the Pope is the head of the Roman Catholics while the Queen is the head of the Church of England.

2. The Church of England uses the King James Bible and the R.C. use the R.C. bible.

3. The Church of England has a better music selection.

4. The Church spires look different. R.C. are pointy. CoE are more like castle turrets, 4 corners often with smaller spires on them.

5 Monastic orders for the Roman Catholics and celibate priests. CoE priests can be married. No monastic orders.

Other than that the differences are all in clothing and building design.

Answer 5

People here will insist on talking through their hats. Get educated before you post.

Those who talk about Henry VIII know less than nothing. The Church of England became what it is today after Henry was dead. Henry went to Mass eight times a day and hanged a man for eating meat on a Friday, and resisted the Reformation with great determination. He changed nothing except that he swapped himself for the pope.

The two essentials of Protestantism are:

a) sola fide (faith in the substitutionary atonement of Christ to justify the sinner as righteous before God);

b) sola Scriptura (the 66 books of the Bible are the sole arbiter of correct belief and practice).

Every CoE cleric signs assent to the Anglican Articles that state these two tenets, which Rome condemns outright. But some Anglo-Catholics are literally damned liars, if there's a God, because they teach things contrary to those and other Anglican tenets, like you must go to a priest for confession and mass, and prayers for the dead. Every Anglican reforming bishop and archbishop described the RCC as anti-Christ, so Anglos don't have any respectable Anglican tradition, either.

So why don't they just clear off and go to Rome? Because Rome has a sinister, quasi-legal feel in England, and they want to deceive Anglicans with Romanist teachings while appearing to be decent British chaps. Yeucchh.
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Answer 6

The Anglican Church came about as an offshoot of Catholicism. When it broke away from the Catholic Church, it was not so much out of disagreement over matters of faith, morals and rituals. The break was all about authority. Anglicanism may be typified as a nationalist movement - who has authority over the church of England - a faraway Pope or the immediate secular sovereign. This is the reason why High Anglicanism resembles the mainstream Catholic Church. It would be wrong to say it tries to imitate from the Catholic Church. When the break came during the reign of Henry Tudor- the king with the "zipper problem," many seating bishops joined the new Church of England. Thus, these bishops, having derived authority from legal apostolic succession, are recognized by Rome as true bishops. That they ordered the use of vernacular instead of Latin was their prerogative. That they retained use of ancient Catholic religious vestries as well as religious offices and organizations are also their prerogatives. Take note, however, that there is also a Low Anglican Church. This is that branch of theEstablished national church of England that discarded much of the trappings of High Anglicanism and can be described as your regular Protestant Church of England. The only problem with the high Anglican church lies in the very circumstances that gave it birth - the usurpation by a secular power of the highest power in the church. The Establsihed Church of England was born because the English sovereign gave to himself the prerogative of being its highest authority. Thus, time and time again, it showed itself as a mere tool or stooge of the English monarch. It is therefore susceptible to external pressure, especially from the Crown. When Henry VIII failed to get the approval by the Pope in Rome of his decision to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, he simply cut all ties with Rome and set up the local bishop to become chief primate of the English church, a position that henceforth made every successor to the position beholden to the ruling powers that be. Thus, when Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn, had her beheaded later then went on to marry four more women, the chief authority of the English church could not even make a peep. And for the next four hundred years or so, the Bishops of Canterbury, the primary seat of the English Church had become had become as footnotes to the entire sweep of English history, unable to assert themselves as prophetic ministers because ethey have become mere appendages to the throne. Lately, the Anglican church faced the biggest challenge to its existence when more and more Anglicans were agitatedby what rs' moral pronouncement, i.e. ordination of women and openly gay bishops and even more confounding allowing some bishops to question such once sacrosanct teachings as "the Virgin Birth" and even the divinity of Jesus.Not long from now the Angican church fill face another litmus test when Charles, a divorcee living with another royal divorcee shall have ascended as throne of England.

Answer 7

Anglo Catholicism is a "branch?" of the Anglican church that recognises that whilst Henry 8 appointed himself Head of the Church in England, and thus separated it from the Roman Catholic church, he did not intend any change to its liturgy, practices or sacraments.

Obviously, most of the effects of the "Reformation" occurred after Henry had died, and during the regency of his shortlived son.

Anglo Catholic church preserves these catholic practices and format of worship, but without the Roman connection, possibly apostolic succession and the authority of the Pope.

Answer 8

Anglo-Catholicism embraces too wider range of opinion for there to be an easy answer to that. The very high Anglo-Catholics are really pretend Roman-Catholics, but for some reason they are reluctant to go there.

The "lower" you go, the more the doctrinal differences between Anglo and Roman Catholicism open up.


I hate to contradict Phishpis (below), but the C of E does have monastic orders. I am personally acquainted with some Anglican gentlemen (and women) wearing monastic habits.

Answer 9

Roman church believes that Peter was the first Pope, not married, the foundation "rock" of the church; that the Pope is the ‘vicar of Christ’and can make infallible pronouncements and the Roman church is the only true church; that tradition has equal authority with the Bible; that Mary was a perpetual virgin, Mother of God, co-regent of Jesus, mediator, without sin and assumed into heaven; that transubstantiation represents the real body and blood of Christ at the communion; and that salvation is by faith and works.
True Christians deny all this, claiming that there is absolutely no support in the Protestant canon for any of these statement - they are all false. True Christians also claim that salvation is by faith alone and works are a part of sanctification

Answer 10

Anglicans do not accept the Pope as head of the Church.
The Anglican Church is a Catholice Church (not Protestant)