VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Administrator (Rev. Dr. Peter Hearty)|DATE|1388556442|CONTENT|@Charlie

The CofE is a curious sort of church. Large parts of it consider themselves Catholic, but don&#039;t recognise the Pope as their head. Instead, the hereditary head of the Windsor family gets to be head of this church instead. They follow Roman rites and generally try to do everything as Catholicly as possible.

Roman Catholics look with utter disdain upon these so-called Anglo-Catholics. They don&#039;t recognise their priests or bishops as having any magic powers and think the site of grown men running around pretending to be priests is quite ridiculous.

On several occasions, such as the introduction of women priests and the imminent introduction of women bishops, many Anglo-Catholic priests and bishops have fled the CofE in alarm. When they join the Roman Catholic Church they have to be ordained again. Quite how they reconcile their new belief (that they didn&#039;t have any magic powers before) with their old belief  (that they had a perfectly good set of magic powers before) is never really explained.|IP-ADDRESS|92.236.214.196|MODERATIONFLAG|