From October 2003 … | |||||
American Anglican Council gathering in Dallas |
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During
the "Plano" meeting of over 2,500 conservative clergy and laity in
October 2003, several
messages came in from friends outside the Episcopal Church. On Wednesday,
Oct. 8, just as the afternoon session was about to end, Anthony Clark,
a deputy to General Convention from the Diocese of Fort Worth, was called
on
to read one of the messages.
The crowd rose to its feet as he announced that the message had been sent by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, chief assistant to Pope John Paul II. Cardinal Ratzinger has now been elected Pope Benedict XVI. |
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From
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger I
hasten to assure you of my heartfelt prayers for all those taking part
in this convocation. The significance of your meeting is sensed far
beyond Plano, and even in this City from which Saint Augustine of Canterbury
was sent to confirm and strengthen the preaching of Christ’s
Gospel in England. Nor can I fail to recall that barely 120 years later,
Saint Boniface brought that same Christian faith from England to my
own forebears in Germany. With
fraternal regards, I remain +Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger |
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