I'm a cradle Catholic who has begun to say a daily Rosary for the past year and will continue to pray for the Church. If all of us did the same we would defeat this evil very quickly.
The Catholic a church is the Bride of Christ. It too, now, must go thru crucifixion , after the Great Apostacy it is said we will see the Anti Christ . So while we have to submit to Gods will. We still want as many souls saved as possible in this time of great confusion and deception!
An 87 year old Aussie cradle Catholic (R.C) here. What a joy to hear you Dr Ashenden! Please lead Calvin Robinson by the hand and bring him to us! I think the Papacy is his stumbling block...I have loved C. R ever since I first heard him . Pity the Petrine Church is not the best at the moment, Calvin..but we are all sinners. The Holy Spirit guide you my dear.
As an American I am so saddened over Calvin’s treatment. As a new Catholic convert I have been praying for Calvin for the last year. He refreshed my soul with his courage and clarity, truly a man of God. Thank you Galvin for all you do to help us keep the faith. God Boess Calvin.
This issue, in my opinion is the biggest problem the West, including the church, has. God bless you Gavin for bringing a voice to this and supporting Calvin. You are both very much needed in Christendom!
I hope he focuses instead on following Christ in treating women as spiritual equals, giving generously and sacrificially to the poor and courageously spreading the gospel to atheists and followers of other faiths. It's Pharisaic to treat women in such a patriarchal way. IMO
No I should think not. I was a devout Catholic until SS blessings were given the green light by Francis. Now I feel lost and no longer know what to believe.@@joelmorsch4790
Thank for this inspiring final message. I was very active in the Anglican church, but over the past 10 years, I could see no light at the end of the tunnel. I have since become Eastern Orthodox and am settled in my soul. I pray for all my Anglican brothers and sisters.
Dr. Ashenden, I am an orthodox, traditional ACNA priest. I was at the conference. I want you to know that God has kept 7,000 for Himself who have not bowed the knee to Baal. There is tremendous groundswell after this past weekend pushing for the ACNA college of bishops to rectify its fatal “Dual Integrities”. Christ has not abandoned his flock. Pray for us.
I would like to learn more about this. I belong to an ACNA church, which I love. But I see that this dual integrities position cannot stand. I was very dismayed when I heard about the treatment of Calvin Robinson.
Thank you very much Fr Gavin for your clear explanation of the deep issues which Calvin Robinson dealt with at his recent conference. Both of you are a treasure to the layman seeking guidance through choppy waters. God bless you both in your on-line ministries. From Arthur (Anglican in South Africa)
Excellent and thank you! Love listening to Calvin and you, anytime! This is a comment by a cradel Catholic who, by the Grace of God, has found the beauty and wonders and spiritual fulfillment of The Traditional Latin Mass! Please continue your wonderful ministry!!
I was at the Mere Anglicanism conference this year. Fr Calvin's talk was very well received, and many said a breath of fresh air. Your analysis is spot on. I would add that I do not believe that the Roman church is significantly better positioned to reclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ than the global Anglican fellowship. I know that God's plan will prevail, and I only pray it will be in my time.
Thank-you, that was quite helpful. I’m an EO who yearns for the unity of orthodox Christians in catholic unity. So, I follow Anglican Unscripted as well as Catholic Unscripted. This subject is so, so slippery. And looking at the temptations & sins of my own life as well as those in the Church, it’s hard not to despair. It feels like the evil one has us good! Only grace & the intercessions of Our Lady & the Saints can see us through. We are not of ourselves - individually, ecclesially - strong enough to withstand. Thank-you for words & categories to help see through the murkiness of the “Wisdom of this age.”
what an impressive wisdom !!!! Every time I hear Dr, Gavin, in any topic, o get immersed into your insights. I pray for Fr. Calvin to win the fight against devil's world
I don't know much about Calvin, I heard him interviewed on a Catholic channel: 'Avoiding Babylon' last week, and I found him quite thoughtful, kind, & desiring to spread the message of the Gospel. As a former protestant and recent convert to Catholicism I could see in the interview, he appears to think he can take on the juggernaut of pseudo-christianity(?) from within it. Excellent analysis as usual Dr Ashenden. So thankful I found you!
I converted to the Catholic Church from the ELCA (liberal Lutheran) church for this very reason. I suspected that the feminist viewpoint within the ELCA caused the free fall from traditional Christianity but I didn’t know why. As a woman, wife and mother that had a career, I had mixed feelings about women clergy but could see the focus change from spreading the gospel to appeasing the culture. I admire and appreciate people like Calvin Robinson for speaking the truth.
St. Maximus had his tongue cut out and right hand amputated by…Christians! (They persecuted Pope Martin, too, for the same reason - standing for Truth against unity-winning compromise.)
Dr. G. Ashenden, what do you think of this? If Anglicanism is "lost" so is Roman Catholicism "lost," and for the same reasons. However, with Anglicanism, faithful Anglicans reform and disfellowship compromising/subversive officials and institutions, e.g. Justin Welby and the EUSA. Now, with the atrocious abuse of Fr. Calvin Robinson, the winnowing continues. R.C.s will have to do the same thing but, due to centralized control by "lifers," a nastier fight is getting underway. OBTW, Jesus' assurance that the Church will never be lost is SPIRITUAL, not institutional, as in "The Kingdom of God is within you." Thank you for your comments and reading my response.
I’m afraid the notion of a ‘spiritual’ church is Protestantism. The Church from Jesus to the 15th Century has no concept of this (outside the Gnostics) - so I think you are mistaken about the promise of Jesus, You are right in saying the to save Anglicanism there is just a more severe process of fragmenting underway. But the fight in the Catholic Church is once again very different. But I can’t prophesy how it will work out. All I know is that Jesus will save it, the Holy Spirit will purify it, and the heretics will be slowly pushed out as the integrity of apostolic Christianity reasserts itself - institutionally as well as spiritually,
Thank you Gavin. You and Calvin are lights in these dark times. There are confused people being manipulated by evil people. May i add that i have trouble accepting that i've got to being 60 years old and now realise that for the last couple of years i've been using the word that i don't think i ever used before - 'evil'.
So true! I would NEVER have used the word evil to describe anything for most of my life. But recently, we have begun to see the evil that is all around us, and we are waking up and realizing our whole society has become remarkably evil, and evil is flourishing like never before. There is no other word to describe what is happening.
@@tomthx5804 you should read the abolition of man. And remember that was written before you were born. This isn't new, it just took you this long to notice
One, and only one, reason I, a cradle Episcopalian, converted to the Catholic Church. And you are right, it is not a happy time to be a Catholic. Yet there are THIRTY RCIA candidates this year in my parish.
The ACNA never embraced Anglo-Catholics, a problem that traces its roots to the Elizabethan Settlement as now the Puritan protestants dominate their leadership and oversight of their "dual integrity." I discovered the group's absolute lack of theological integrity in 2016 when, as a priest, I requested a simple transfer from a low-church protestant diocese to what was then an Anglo-Catholic diocese (that diocese eventually ordained women deacons). In response, the bishop sent a letter of "dissolution" of my Holy Orders and the Archbishop backed him. The group's canons allow only inhibition of a priest unless he or SHE(!) does something really egregious, and then they may be deposed (something similar to Roman Catholic laicization). ACNA bishops are willing to run fast and loose with their own canon law to scorch the earth under those who were truly Anglo-Caths. In the end, their illegal actions made me the only Anglican priest in 500 years to have his Orders "dissolved" something that, of course, is theologically impossible. Hence I wasn't the least surprised that ACNA leadership were enraged by Fr Robinson's coherent discourse on cultural Marxism vis a vis prima scriptura and the Great Tradition.
@@goomgoom5504Remember ++Foley and his back peddling over the African Gafcon bishops who made women bishops, even hiding the fact he was at a conference with at least one of those cosplayers.
Calvin Robinson is a God send, humble, honest, trustworthy, faithful and a gem to the Christian Faith. You to Dr G Ashenden are a God send love listening to you both, what is wrong with our world when they walk away from truth. I would love to go to Calvin Robinson church or a church run by you. Thank you. For your faith. God bless you all. 😮💯💯💯💯🇬🇧🇬🇧🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻✝️
Dear Gavin+ It means a great deal to me to see you as a defender of Calvin+ Robinson. Thank you for joining with him in pointing to the 30:28 timeless Biblical truth for which he was cancelled at Mere Anglicanism. I love Calvin as I love you for your very keen intellect, always in submission to your heart of faith, never hesitating in shepherding the sheep of our Savior Jesus Christ in Spirit and in truth. As part of the founding generation of the ACNA, this episode is very disheartening to me. I am praying for him and for those who treated him so terribly. It does remind me of the way many of those who have had the gift of prophecy and have spoken God’s truth have also been treated.
I had a dream. Pope Calvin sits on the throne of Peter. Calvin, you are more Catholic than the Pope. As an Irish Catholic I love your bravery, your solid theology and common sense. A breath of fresh air.
Anger in general comes from guilt and / or fear. This anger comes from guilt. These Judases are throwing their 30 pieces of silver at Calvin. Their eternal damnation is next.
Truly this is a cautionary tale for all Christian churches. The days of coasting on the coattails of "cultural Christianity" are over. That cultural Christianity or what's left of it. has been thoroughly "converted" by the Spirit of the Age.
As a fellow OKS (1977-82 Lineacre) Dr Ashenden, and as a traditionalist - and a devout Christian - I just wanted quickly to thank you for your ministry online, which I watch and support, even as an Anglican overseas. (My wife is a Mexican R Catholic - my mother was RC, too.) I send love and support your way. God Bless 🏴🙏
Interestingly, my first comment in staunch (but in no way unreasonable) defense of Calvin Robinson has been removed by the “powers-that-be” on TH-cam! It must have been my attack on the leaders of the CofE and stalwart belief that priestesses should never have been ordained into a Christian Church - just as C S Lewis forewarned for obvious reasons. God Bless.
Very succinct resumé of contemporary Western Christianity and its wilfulness to be strapped in to the harness of progressive liberalism. As you say, what will remain will be purer gold than before, and while it may be painful for true Christians to endure this purification, we will be better for it.
Any conference that claims to be a forum for rigorous intellectual pursuit but shushes challenging voices, is a sham. What a terrible shame they are so afraid of differing views.
I am a hybrid. I love Anglicanism and believe in “Mere Christianity” but I also discovered Mary and a love of the Rosary. It has brought me such fulfillment but I don’t fit in anywhere.
This is an amazing interpretation. This really needs to be heard by the Pope, all Bishops and Catholic priests as soon as possible. This wise and deelpy thoughtful talk must reach the whole Catholic Church; it is imperative. This and what happened to Fr Calvin is the Holy Spirit talking.
My first experience of Dr. Ashenden. His analysis of Anglicanism and feminism is absolutely correct. The barbarians are not only at the gates, but inside the walls. The woke babel must be defeated.
Though now a Catholic, Dr. Ashenden still cares deeply about his Anglican brethren and remains a resonant voice standing against the wayward tide swamping Anglicanism.
Thank you so much for standing with Fr. Calvin Robinson... He absolutely didn't deserve this... I am a protestant woman and I totally agree that men should not be ordained nor become pastors or preachers... Praying for Him and for you to continue being truthful to our Holy Scriptures.
Dr. Ashenden for this troubled cradle R.C. at 73 , I have been for a long time interested in the Anglican Church both here in the U.S. and in G.B.. Both in the way it was founded in the 1500’s and its subsequent evolution. My Anglican friend in the 1960’s almost gloated when the R. C. church switched to the vernacular in the Mass advising me that it only took 400 years to catch up to the Anglicans! Amen! But it is my sincere belief that we will never catch up to the changes currently endorsed by the Episcopal hierarchy. When the Archbishop of Canterbury invites his fellow Anglicans to walk together they don’t hear him mutter under his breath “But in my direction.”
As a member of the ACNA and my husband as one of the priests in our local parish, I am so sorry this happened at this conference. Whether some hold to women’s ordination and others don’t, there is no need for canceling anybody. I personally do not subscribe to women’s ordination, but there is an opportunity to be more charitable than what happened. I do understand that Father Calvin did stray from the topic at hand. Such a shame. I hope that he along with all the others in charge of the conference will be able to maintain an irenic spirit, rise above this, and continue their wonderful ministries. Lord, in your mercy hear our prayer.
He was invited to speak in an echo chamber the purpose of which was to keep reaffirming their beliefs. CR however confronted them with The Truth and evil does not like the Truth.
Well said Gavin, I hear echoes of that hymn we used to sing at morning assembly in school: Faith of our fathers Holy Faith, we will be true to thee til death. Show us your face Lord and we will be saved. God Bless.
Sadly I hear morning assembly in State schools no longer happens. Unless you send your children to a private Christian school which I did for my mine. These Christian schools are now under attack because of the trans issues and children who want to identify as such.
Same problem as Socrates had. He exposed the intellectual bankruptcy of the Sophists etc., proved that they knew nothing and they didn't like it. He got cancelled as well.
The saddest thing of all was that the anglicans looked only at the color of Calvin’s skin as a prerequisite for his speaking. Shame on their blindness. Once again, religion has been replaced by social emphasis. Jesus cries.
Thank you, Gavin. I belong to a church in the ACNA and I am concerned about the possibility of a further split. I also have been teaching part time at Fuller Seminary in Southern California. Last year they came out with a statement on women which used critical theory to support the ordination of women. They made it very clear that women’s ordination could not be questioned. Now they have formed a committee on sexuality, and I will bet you any money that they will change their community standards and teachings on sexuality towards a more liberal position and will use critical theory to justify it. At which point I will resign. So I can see Calvin’s point.
Women who are called to be nuns, consecrated virgins or single women are no less feminine than mothers. When femininity is discussed by some in the RC church it is often with a very narrow outlook that doesn’t fully respect the stature and dignity of women who chose not to be mothers. As a woman, of course I’m against the ordination of women, but with all due respect, Gavin needs to stop thinking of just mothers when he talks about the role of women in the church.
Dr Ashenden, enjoyed your presentation. Must clear something you maybe ignorant of. The ACNA, especially the Diocese of South Carolina, is not orthodox Anglicanism. While there maybe some orthodox Anglicans within the ACNA, as a whole the ACNA is just the The Episcopal Church one second prior to the laying on of hands to Vickie Gene Robinson. The openly homosexual man who was made a bishop in the TEC. Up to then, except for the Reformed Episcopal Church which sadly joined the ACNA, those in the ACNA were perfectly content to remain TEC. Far too many in the ACNA have the title Anglican, but have no clue what being an Anglican means. The ACNA bishops in the paper you reference did admit that Women Ordination in not in scripture, tradition or history, but decided to go against all of that to allow WO. This was in 2017. As an aside, the ACNA is not in communion with each other. Liberalism and feminism run the shop in mainline. I have to disagree with you about how Anglicanism can not resist feminism and liberalism. The Continuing Anglican Churches, though very tiny in the UK, is growing not only in the US, but Africa etal. We have successfully kept liberalism and feminism out of the church. Our Bishops work together to make it so. I guess our form of magisterium. We look to scripture, councils, tradition. If it is not allowed by scripture, it is not allowed. If it is not allowed by a Council of the Church, it is not allowed. We have no movement among us of liberalism of any sort nor feminism. The only females allow near the altar is the altar guild and none of the ladies object. We go even further than the Roman Catholic Church and do not all for altar girls, which you call servers. In many ways we are like the Latin Mass Catholics. So there are Anglicans who are standing fast on the faith. We have suffered greatly from the CoE and the TEC, stolen property and money. Just as not all Roman Catholics follow everything Pope Francis and Fr James Martin support and try to push on the church, there are Anglicans who also stand fast. Anglicanism will survive, it is not lost. Only the chafe (protestant) is being burned away. As Pope Benedict predicted in the 60's (?) or 70's, the church must shrink to be smaller but more authentic and faithful to Christ. Both the Anglican and Roman Churches are going through the vision Pope Leo X gave us in the 19th Century. It is being played out before our eyes. The time of tribalism has to end. As Franklin said, "We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." God bless your ministry and thank you for your defense of Fr Calvin. Know the orthodox Anglicans here in the States are as we say "up in arms" about his treatment. The venue was Mere Anglicanism and some now question if it will recover and is it worth supporting. Fr Calvin did a wonderful job is shaking awake the sleeping orthodox clergy in the ACNA, yes there are a few.
Thank you, Dr Ashenden for this review of the problems in the Anglican 'church'. I am reminded of the remark made by Malcolm Muggeridge that is the Church of England were disestablished, it would be seen to have ceased to exist. It is, in other words, nothing but an empty shell, providing employment and preferment and privilege to certain people, who only have to pretend to be Christian.
This is absolutely staggering, the implications. I had a strange feeling that something huge and dire was happening in the Anglican church; but did not realise that it could be as devsatating as this. Something told me today, to go to a Catholic service......
I'm afraid the ear of this particular incumbent is stopped. But no one thinks or claims the individual pope can ever be without error. This one has a lot of error. We pray for him. (and for his successor!)
It's just beginning! This week Anglicans have been invited by Pope Francis to invade St. Peter's Basilica and other Catholic churches and to celebrate the Eucharist and Evensong in Catholic churches. And Pope Francis is going to commission pairs of Anglican and Catholic bishops for joint mission! In Pope Pius XI’s 1928 encyclical Mortalium animos, Catholic participation in Protestant ceremonies or “assemblies” was expressly forbidden. Pius XI wrote: "… it is clear that the Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics either to support or to work for such enterprises; for if they do so they will be giving countenance to a false Christianity, quite alien to the one Church of Christ." Does Rome have even a shred of credibility when it violates its own magisterial teaching within less than a century??? So much for an unchanging, perennial and rock-solid magisterium!
@@CatholicZealot My tiny Church at the bottom of the hill is a Victorian Church built in Victorian slums and was and is supported by the poorest. It naturally looks up at the Grand Anglican Church at the top of the Hill in the centre of the town, bearing the same name,1/2 of which is the original ancient Catholic Church. Consequently it's very hard to see this thru PFs eyes, the only thing and the Cof E have in common is a rainbow agenda, so there is that.
Well spoken Gavin, I wholeheartedly agree. I became Catholic 3 1/2 yrs ago and I most certainly do not feel it is a case of out of the frying pan into the fire.
Brilliant take on the rot within the "church!" However, Calvin is being used as an instrument for good under the direct guidance of the Trinity. Even though he's being "flogged" at every opportunity for being unwavering in his defense of the Gospel, he'll stand solid like a lighthouse in a tempestuous sea, on the rock of his salvation. May God's glory continue to be shown by Calvin's obedience to Him, who "holds him by the scruff of his neck," no matter what may happen.
@@martinploughboy988 Very true! And that tradition contradicts itself repeatedly over the centuries and thrives on encrustations that have no basis in apostolic teaching or even in the teaching of the church fathers.
@@tumbletoes909 The Vatican's prefect for the Congregation (Dicastery) of the Doctrine of the Faith himself admits that the church has changed it's position on a variety of doctrines and disciplines that were once regarded as anchored in firm tradition and the magisterium. For examples, the 'perfidious' Jews were repeatedly condemned by the Church. Vatican 2 now maintains that they are "beloved of God" and God has not abrogated his covenant with them. The fudge that the Catholic hierarchy will use when it changes 'tradition' is that it will claim that this is a 'doctrinal development.' Usury, slavery, (no) salvation outside the Church, clerical celibacy, etc. are other examples. And don't forget, three popes in a row condemned heliocentricism as 'formal heresy.'
Dr Ashenden. Fifty five years trying to find an abode in Anglicanism persuaded me it was not possible. Not on offer. Like you I have become Catholic. Even with the Francis disaster I am certain that the relocation was right.
I am an Anglican in Australia, and I often listen to these videos from you, Calvin, and others of the same ilk. I disagree with much of what you assert, but I enjoy so much the intelligent and thoughtful way you present your views. And I appreciate the opportunity to listen to and understand what you think and believe. I am utterly opposed to cancelling as in cancel culture. As an idea, it is the complete opposite to the academic training I received as an undergraduate and postgraduate student. The whole practice of debating. One must learn to argue ones point. Its inevitable that one will disagree with others, but one cannot run away from the debate. Cancellation is the enemy of debate. So I will continue to listen and learn.
I was an Anglican priest for 15 years and found that I could no longer exist in that environment. I am now a transitional deacon in the Catholic Church and look forward to priesthood in a few months.
Whoever told Calvin not to rock the boat hasnt read their bible too well Matthew 10:34-36: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s foes will be those of his own household.” The truth has a particular habit of rocking the boat when the boat has been built on lies.
Go Calvin go. Go. So thankful for him. I can't imagine that Mary would ever have wanted these things. Her serene power did not come from battling it out for it.
I can't see how you can honestly call the Anglican church a "noble ecumenical experiment". Especially considering how it was started with Henry VIII thinking that he actually had the right to do so. He was never given the authority from Christ to do so. And look how it just helped to divide and fracture Chistendom.
I sympathise with your response. I was quoting my diocesan bishop - who although claiming to be a Catholic Anglican has remained Anglican through its degeneration. They were his words which got me thinking.
No-one would call Henry the 8th a godly person, but God frequently uses just such people at times to bring about his purposes. Jehu for instance was raised up to rid the land of the dreadful legacy of Ahab and Jezebel, after which renewal came (see 2 Kings 9 to 12). The book of Habakkuk is another example. At the time of Henry 8th Roman Catholicism was thoroughly corrupt, and God used Henry to destroy its power, ushering in room for the Reformation, one of, if not the greatest, moves of God in the last 2,000 years. Sadly many of the denominations and renewal movements it spawned are as apostate in the west as Catholocism was 500 years ago. Thus what is needed today is not a return to Catholicism, or any other 'ism', but a new Reformation to bring the church back to Jesus and its biblical roots - and that includes the Catholic Church.
@@rolfburnie9068 I admire Gavin's wisdom and erudition, but he looses credibility when he pretends that Luther suddenly came along when all was hunky-dory and began attacking the Roman church because he was an ill-tempered, constipated, Augustinian monk. And, Gavin inevitably fails to mention that Luther did not leave the Catholic Church to start another church, he was excommunicated.
While I agree that Calvin Robinson has been appallingly treated I was stunned Gavin chose to attack his old friend Kevin Kallsen host of Anglican Unscripted. Kevin may not have invited a witness onto his show who Gavin approves of but he was a witness and Kevin, himself, did not come across as anti Calvin at all, far from it. For Gavin to publicly assert fellow Christian conservative Kevin "did not want" Calvin to give his own account seems impetuous and spiteful. Is an old score being settled? Having held Gavin in the highest esteem I am disappointed.
I am a Catholic who loves the high church liturgy. I sometimes watch the Mass (yes I am aware of the is or is it not because of Leo XIII) at Saint Margaret's in London. however the moment I see a women in a chasuble., no matter how lovely the music or how cloudy the incense I go click and turn it off. Why? Because a woman "priest" is transgenderism in a chasuble. As a Catholic the Mass is the sacramental un-bloody re-presentation of that one sacrifice Christ made on the cross. The priest offers the Mass in persona Christi. The sacrifice of Christ was made by a biological male whose Divinity cannot be separated from His humanity. The priest is obliged to offer in the totality of Christ's reality as both a human biological male, whose masculine identity was united to his Divinity in a way I cannot fathom expect by faith. A woman pretending to re- present Christ's sacrificial offering flies in the face of an historic and objective reality. It is fundamentally false. This proclaims God's choice to incarnate His Son as irrelevant, which is false. Furthermore the non Scriptural woman "priest" is a cheeky bit of pride and sinfully presumptuous given that the Holy Virgin Mary was never given this privilege in God's Divine plan. The irony is that Mary by her constant intercession for the church, fulfills and exemplifies the importance of women in God's eyes in way never equaled an ocean filled with priestesses en costume for Halloween. As an organist I have worked for Protestant woman ministers. They were kind, most exceptionally intelligent, and excellent preachers but presiding over a memorial communion service is not the Mass. Dr Ashenden has clearly pointed out that a functional definition of ministry is miles apart from one that is sacramental. As to Calvin, he would make a good Cardinal. Whatever his other theological peculiarities he is far more trustworthy and more ORTHODOX than Francis and his BFF familiar T Fernandez.
I find the cancellation subversive and despicable as they had to know Calvin’s position. Gavin, please speak more about feminism. As a 60 yr old female I am always discovering ways it has seeped into my consciousness even while resisting it culturally. Especially through the Protestant naïveté that formed me.
It’s not true to say Protestantism has ran out of steam as the numbers say that RC and other main line denomination are declining. Growing churches are independent Protestant. The facts are sometimes inconvenient.
Yes Christianity had become or is becoming a popular movement. Turning the teaching of Jesus into a sort of vending machine, take what you want but not the whole.
@@octuple505 Or added to Scripture such as infant baptism, confession, the Mass, worshipping of idols while denying the supremacy of Scripture & salvation by faith alone.
The Western Catholic Church is not a denomination. It is true to say that a reform movement predicated on a political misreading or 16C politics and theology has run out of steam. How could not since the circumstances it claimed to protest against have changed so radically. You need to give some evidence of the numbers you rely on to make your argument I'm afraid.
I find Dr Ashenden wonderfully wise. I now deeply regret voting for women priests and feel they are destroying the Church from within. I am so glad to discover that I am not alone in my view. In fact, I have returned to Catholicism because it, at the moment anyway, holds fast to the Christian Doctrine and does not yield to secular demands.
Reformed baptist here. I am annoyed by how a brave chap like Calvin has been treated. One scripture that comes to mind is the warning against “quarrels about words” from 1 Times 6:3-5; because it’s impossible to define any term to 100% exactitude, people can play evasive language games. This is what results in the nuancing to death of discourse - it’s an intentional facet of deconstruction to argue that because definitions are not ABSOLUTE, they are not USEFUL or MEANINGFUL. However, if everyone in the tribe calls the creature a “buffalo”, then “buffalo” it is, and such it is with woke.
Dr Ashenden you're an educated gentleman so I suspect you know that Protestantism wasn't and isn't "make it up as you go along", to call it such is disingenuous.
An excellent analysis. Thank you. I was brought up Roman Catholic, and the reasons you have laid out in your video are partly why I converted to Eastern Orthodoxy - although, there were very many other reasons.
It is always a good time to be a Roman Catholic. I hope you are correct in your suggestion that the American Anglican Church is unraveling. We can only pray that the damage done by Pope Francis is limited and correctable so as to bring more souls to our Lord and His Father. You note that the errors of Pope Francis largely mimic protestant errors. Let's fix it by holding to the truth and keeping the lights on so that our Anglican siblings have a place to come.
I'm a member of an Anglican church in Hampshire. We have a reverend who is female to which does not concern me however some traditions that are pegan in origin do. What am I to do in this regard as in need a place of worship that has not been infiltrated by the great deceiver the devil! Please help my brothers & sisters to find a worthy place of worship 🙏 ❤️
Quite agree with everything you said. Im a big supporter of Calvin, he said in an interview i saw somthing along the lines of, we are all going to have to start and stick our necks out for Solo Scriptura. We are going to be hard ad direct. They removed him and they looked like the idiots. How dare they, typical extreme left. Preach open and acceptance when actually nothing is further from the truth. As Paul used to say, persecution is the refiner. To Calvin, Joyful Endurance in Tribulation, Exemplary Conduct. I still find it so hard to beleive that there is so much corruption in the church leaderships, so much divergence from Scripture, these places will lose the power of God, through the word and will die
Great talk; I truly respect Calvin Robinson and pray that one day he will come home to the RC church. Last year I attended a funeral in San Diego, held in a borrowed Lutheran prayer hall, with a small table, not an altar. It was officiated by a woman in priestly/priestess robes, which was actually hilarious! It just looks weird. Anyway, here some some highlights (lowlights??): Throughout the so-called "Mass", God was referred to by the pronouns "she" and "her"... Said priestess inserted into her homily "...as Roman Catholics..." several times! I silently asked the question, "Then why are you not in a Roman Catholic church right now, lady?!" ... The "Our Father" was so different I hardly recognized it... There was no consecration, obviously, but the priestess passed around the obligatory trays with chunks of bread and tiny paper cups of grape juice. I was polite and stood or sat with the group of mourners, but I would not do any responses/songs, or partake of the phony communion. I told my husband and daughter not to take the food, but they did anyway, much to my chagrin, saying "It's only bread." That's true, but they didn't get the fact that, in doing so, they were playing along with, and giving credence to, the heretical travesty. The radical feminists simply don't want to acknowledge that 1.) Jesus didn't choose women for the priesthood and 2.) A priest stands in for Jesus at the Eucharist, in persona christi. Blessings to you!😄
There is a book called The Little Healer and it’s a book about a child who lived on a small island who healed. The book is not easy to find about the beautiful child Linda Martel but it is a beautiful read. The one thing in the book it does mention is Linda told her mother and she said positively “one day you will know” - this puzzled the author as to what she was referring to. To me it is so clearly obvious, Linda in her healing referred to her Jesus infact she knew of him before the age of five from her experiences through her healing. Linda was they say older for her years. But getting back to her term “ one day you will know” I believe she was saying that in these times something will happen so profound will happen that the Christ energy or the Christ will be seen and we will know that he does exist. This in turn will make those that have turned away from the bible to realise their terrible mistakes
"Christ energy"? Sounds very New Age, which is understandable as the Adversary often presents himself as an angel of light, as St. Paul writes. Children are often his target. But that doesn't mean that the true Holy Spirit does not use children either to present the Kingdom. We are, however, exhorted to test the spirits. Deception has been burgeoning since the early 1900s, especially Spiritually, and has infested the Church Politic badly. It seems to be cyclic, imo. BTW, 'Christ' (Latin/English) came from 'Christus' (Greek), which followed 'Maschiac' (Hebrew), all meaning 'Messiah', and is a *title,* not an name.
Proficiency ? I did write it myself from my own personal experience as she would now be the similiar age to me if , she had lived. Coincidently I was only this afternoon talking to a second hand book seller who had spoken to one of her descendant’s relatives, he was trying to research more of her story and her miracles
Feminism is one of the favorite expressions of the Spirit of Jezebel, named after a famous heroine in the Old Testament. Even the Prophet Elijah had gotten under its influence and despite all his previous spiritual actions and authority, tried to escape, hide and wanted to die. So intimidating can be this spiritual power.
I would beg to differ with you on Anglicanism, while the church of England is certainly lost. Global Anglicanism, especially in the global south is thriving and orthodox, and in scattered parts of the West. However, I appreciate your thoughts. It was an excellent and enlightening video.
Sorry, but it's worse than nonsense to say that the Anglican Church was a noble experiment in anything. By bloody force the Catholic people of England were wrenched from their one, true and ancient faith--for reasons FAR from noble, having nothing to do with what was good for them and for their souls. Please. But welcome home to the Mother Ship under attack from within as well as, as always, from without: and long live Calvin Robinson as well. He is standing in the gap with you, Dr. Ashenden, and all men who truly follow the Truth to the best of their well-formed consciences. Vivo Christo Re!
Mere Anglicanism - not Christianity. Many thanks for the contribution. Twisting Scriptures the game being practiced since the Garden days. "Twisting" is the Greek, I read, implied torture being applied to get at the truth. We all know torture produces lies.
I'm a cradle Catholic who has begun to say a daily Rosary for the past year and will continue to pray for the Church. If all of us did the same we would defeat this evil very quickly.
I agree. Let's keep it up.
The Catholic a church is the Bride of Christ. It too, now, must go thru crucifixion , after the Great Apostacy it is said we will see the Anti Christ . So while we have to submit to Gods will. We still want as many souls saved as possible in this time of great confusion and deception!
Would LOVE to see CR join the Trac Catholics…
well done. I support Calvin too.
An 87 year old Aussie cradle Catholic (R.C) here. What a joy to hear you Dr Ashenden! Please lead Calvin Robinson by the hand and bring him to us! I think the Papacy is his stumbling block...I have loved C. R ever since I first heard him . Pity the Petrine Church is not the best at the moment, Calvin..but we are all sinners. The Holy Spirit guide you my dear.
As an American I am so saddened over Calvin’s treatment. As a new Catholic convert I have been praying for Calvin for the last year. He refreshed my soul with his courage and clarity, truly a man of God. Thank you Galvin for all you do to help us keep the faith. God Boess Calvin.
This issue, in my opinion is the biggest problem the West, including the church, has. God bless you Gavin for bringing a voice to this and supporting Calvin. You are both very much needed in Christendom!
Does Pope Frances agree with with you?
I really respect Calvin Robinson. I pray he continues his courageous crusade against feminism.
Expose Feminism.
I hope he focuses instead on following Christ in treating women as spiritual equals, giving generously and sacrificially to the poor and courageously spreading the gospel to atheists and followers of other faiths. It's Pharisaic to treat women in such a patriarchal way. IMO
@@Dee-mj3pu expose misogyny and how un-Christ-like it truly is.
@@Mary_QQQ Just saying something is “misogyny” doesn’t mean it is.
@@Mary_QQQ Yes, expose misogyny! But feminism is not the cure, expose it too!
As an orthodox Anglican priest I must say that the way Robinson was treated was absolutely terrible.
As a lay Catholic I quite agree.
Does Roman Catholic criticism on this mean any thing in light of Pope Francis recent statements mean any thing?
No I should think not. I was a devout Catholic until SS blessings were given the green light by Francis. Now I feel lost and no longer know what to believe.@@joelmorsch4790
I think it does. @@joelmorsch4790
I agree!
I have been blessed listening to Calvin. He speaks the truth.
Thank for this inspiring final message. I was very active in the Anglican church, but over the past 10 years, I could see no light at the end of the tunnel. I have since become Eastern Orthodox and am settled in my soul. I pray for all my Anglican brothers and sisters.
Does Pope Frances agree with with Gavin?
He is an amazing man. He has been done so very wrong. My prayers are with him.
Dr. Ashenden, I am an orthodox, traditional ACNA priest. I was at the conference. I want you to know that God has kept 7,000 for Himself who have not bowed the knee to Baal. There is tremendous groundswell after this past weekend pushing for the ACNA college of bishops to rectify its fatal “Dual Integrities”. Christ has not abandoned his flock. Pray for us.
I would like to learn more about this. I belong to an ACNA church, which I love. But I see that this dual integrities position cannot stand. I was very dismayed when I heard about the treatment of Calvin Robinson.
We are part of an ACNA parish in the Diocese of Fort Worth, both Bishop Iker and Bishop Reed do not support non orthodox priests.
Bishops Iker and Reed are wonderful.
Thank you Gavin. Your sermons are precious jewels of truth which uplift and challenge and inspire. Proper sermons ! 😊
Hear! Hear!
I love hearing from you and Fr. Calvin Robinson! Torch bearers of truth! Thank you for speaking on the shameful treatment of Fr. Robinson. 🙏
Thank you, Gavin, for sharing how Calvin Robinson has been treated. Let us pray.
Thank you very much Fr Gavin for your clear explanation of the deep issues which Calvin Robinson dealt with at his recent conference. Both of you are a treasure to the layman seeking guidance through choppy waters. God bless you both in your on-line ministries. From Arthur (Anglican in South Africa)
Excellent and thank you! Love listening to Calvin and you, anytime! This is a comment by a cradel Catholic who, by the Grace of God, has found the beauty and wonders and spiritual fulfillment of The Traditional Latin Mass! Please continue your wonderful ministry!!
I was at the Mere Anglicanism conference this year. Fr Calvin's talk was very well received, and many said a breath of fresh air. Your analysis is spot on. I would add that I do not believe that the Roman church is significantly better positioned to reclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ than the global Anglican fellowship. I know that God's plan will prevail, and I only pray it will be in my time.
Thank-you, that was quite helpful. I’m an EO who yearns for the unity of orthodox Christians in catholic unity. So, I follow Anglican Unscripted as well as Catholic Unscripted. This subject is so, so slippery. And looking at the temptations & sins of my own life as well as those in the Church, it’s hard not to despair. It feels like the evil one has us good! Only grace & the intercessions of Our Lady & the Saints can see us through. We are not of ourselves - individually, ecclesially - strong enough to withstand. Thank-you for words & categories to help see through the murkiness of the “Wisdom of this age.”
what an impressive wisdom !!!! Every time I hear Dr, Gavin, in any topic, o get immersed into your insights. I pray for Fr. Calvin to win the fight against devil's world
I don't know much about Calvin, I heard him interviewed on a Catholic channel: 'Avoiding Babylon' last week, and I found him quite thoughtful, kind, & desiring to spread the message of the Gospel. As a former protestant and recent convert to Catholicism I could see in the interview, he appears to think he can take on the juggernaut of pseudo-christianity(?) from within it.
Excellent analysis as usual Dr Ashenden.
So thankful I found you!
I converted to the Catholic Church from the ELCA (liberal Lutheran) church for this very reason. I suspected that the feminist viewpoint within the ELCA caused the free fall from traditional Christianity but I didn’t know why. As a woman, wife and mother that had a career, I had mixed feelings about women clergy but could see the focus change from spreading the gospel to appeasing the culture. I admire and appreciate people like Calvin Robinson for speaking the truth.
Its not easy to become Catholic if you are divorced. They are very picky who qualifies to their holy religion.
@@bibsann861 so sorry to hear this, that's not been my experience in Wales UK.
I also was wondering about that. @@bibsann861
It's sickening that Christians castigate one of their own for speaking truth. As a Catholic i give thanks for Calvin Robinson
St. Maximus had his tongue cut out and right hand amputated by…Christians! (They persecuted Pope Martin, too, for the same reason - standing for Truth against unity-winning compromise.)
Does Pope Frances agree with with you?
@@joelmorsch4790 it would appear not.
Dr. G. Ashenden, what do you think of this? If Anglicanism is "lost" so is Roman Catholicism "lost," and for the same reasons. However, with Anglicanism, faithful Anglicans reform and disfellowship compromising/subversive officials and institutions, e.g. Justin Welby and the EUSA. Now, with the atrocious abuse of Fr. Calvin Robinson, the winnowing continues. R.C.s will have to do the same thing but, due to centralized control by "lifers," a nastier fight is getting underway. OBTW, Jesus' assurance that the Church will never be lost is SPIRITUAL, not institutional, as in "The Kingdom of God is within you." Thank you for your comments and reading my response.
I’m afraid the notion of a ‘spiritual’ church is Protestantism. The Church from Jesus to the 15th Century has no concept of this (outside the Gnostics) - so I think you are mistaken about the promise of Jesus, You are right in saying the to save Anglicanism there is just a more severe process of fragmenting underway. But the fight in the Catholic Church is once again very different. But I can’t prophesy how it will work out. All I know is that Jesus will save it, the Holy Spirit will purify it, and the heretics will be slowly pushed out as the integrity of apostolic Christianity reasserts itself - institutionally as well as spiritually,
Thank you Gavin. You and Calvin are lights in these dark times. There are confused people being manipulated by evil people. May i add that i have trouble accepting that i've got to being 60 years old and now realise that for the last couple of years i've been using the word that i don't think i ever used before - 'evil'.
❤❤❤❤
Yeah I know.
I live in the consequences of your generation not using the word evil.
So true! I would NEVER have used the word evil to describe anything for most of my life. But recently, we have begun to see the evil that is all around us, and we are waking up and realizing our whole society has become remarkably evil, and evil is flourishing like never before. There is no other word to describe what is happening.
It is remarkably weak to try to blame another generation for your problems. @@marvalice3455
@@tomthx5804 you should read the abolition of man.
And remember that was written before you were born. This isn't new, it just took you this long to notice
As difficult as these times are, I am thankful for those that continue to speak the objective truth. The Modernists cannot stand the light of truth.
One, and only one, reason I, a cradle Episcopalian, converted to the Catholic Church. And you are right, it is not a happy time to be a Catholic. Yet there are THIRTY RCIA candidates this year in my parish.
That’s incredible. WOW. Praise God for so many conversions 😮 (I am a convert as well)
The whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help us God.
Okay, where is the Pope on this?
The ACNA never embraced Anglo-Catholics, a problem that traces its roots to the Elizabethan Settlement as now the Puritan protestants dominate their leadership and oversight of their "dual integrity." I discovered the group's absolute lack of theological integrity in 2016 when, as a priest, I requested a simple transfer from a low-church protestant diocese to what was then an Anglo-Catholic diocese (that diocese eventually ordained women deacons). In response, the bishop sent a letter of "dissolution" of my Holy Orders and the Archbishop backed him. The group's canons allow only inhibition of a priest unless he or SHE(!) does something really egregious, and then they may be deposed (something similar to Roman Catholic laicization).
ACNA bishops are willing to run fast and loose with their own canon law to scorch the earth under those who were truly Anglo-Caths. In the end, their illegal actions made me the only Anglican priest in 500 years to have his Orders "dissolved" something that, of course, is theologically impossible. Hence I wasn't the least surprised that ACNA leadership were enraged by Fr Robinson's coherent discourse on cultural Marxism vis a vis prima scriptura and the Great Tradition.
This is heartbreaking
Disappointing that Archbishop Foley supported this action against you.
@@goomgoom5504Remember ++Foley and his back peddling over the African Gafcon bishops who made women bishops, even hiding the fact he was at a conference with at least one of those cosplayers.
Calvin Robinson is a God send, humble, honest, trustworthy, faithful and a gem to the Christian Faith. You to Dr G Ashenden are a God send love listening to you both, what is wrong with our world when they walk away from truth. I would love to go to Calvin Robinson church or a church run by you. Thank you. For your faith. God bless you all. 😮💯💯💯💯🇬🇧🇬🇧🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻✝️
Dear Gavin+ It means a great deal to me to see you as a defender of Calvin+ Robinson. Thank you for joining with him in pointing to the 30:28 timeless Biblical truth for which he was cancelled at Mere Anglicanism. I love Calvin as I love you for your very keen intellect, always in submission to your heart of faith, never hesitating in shepherding the sheep of our Savior Jesus Christ in Spirit and in truth.
As part of the founding generation of the ACNA, this episode is very disheartening to me. I am praying for him and for those who treated him so terribly. It does remind me of the way many of those who have had the gift of prophecy and have spoken God’s truth have also been treated.
I had a dream. Pope Calvin sits on the throne of Peter. Calvin, you are more Catholic than the Pope. As an Irish Catholic I love your bravery, your solid theology and common sense. A breath of fresh air.
Anger in general comes from guilt and / or fear. This anger comes from guilt. These Judases are throwing their 30 pieces of silver at Calvin. Their eternal damnation is next.
Amen and Amen.
WELL SAID GAVIN!! excellent work of explaining the quasi state of affairs in our churches.
I am Roman Catholic, this is how I wish our Fathers of the Church should be saying!!
Truly this is a cautionary tale for all Christian churches.
The days of coasting on the coattails of "cultural Christianity" are over.
That cultural Christianity or what's left of it. has been thoroughly "converted" by the Spirit of the Age.
As a fellow OKS (1977-82 Lineacre) Dr Ashenden, and as a traditionalist - and a devout Christian - I just wanted quickly to thank you for your ministry online, which I watch and support, even as an Anglican overseas.
(My wife is a Mexican R Catholic - my mother was RC, too.)
I send love and support your way. God Bless 🏴🙏
How lovely to meet you here. School House. 68-72. Bless you and many fraternal greetings.
Interestingly, my first comment in staunch (but in no way unreasonable) defense of Calvin Robinson has been removed by the “powers-that-be” on TH-cam!
It must have been my attack on the leaders of the CofE and stalwart belief that priestesses should never have been ordained into a Christian Church - just as C S Lewis forewarned for obvious reasons. God Bless.
Very succinct resumé of contemporary Western Christianity and its wilfulness to be strapped in to the harness of progressive liberalism. As you say, what will remain will be purer gold than before, and while it may be painful for true Christians to endure this purification, we will be better for it.
Any conference that claims to be a forum for rigorous intellectual pursuit but shushes challenging voices, is a sham. What a terrible shame they are so afraid of differing views.
I am a hybrid. I love Anglicanism and believe in “Mere Christianity” but I also discovered Mary and a love of the Rosary. It has brought me such fulfillment but I don’t fit in anywhere.
This is an amazing interpretation. This really needs to be heard by the Pope, all Bishops and Catholic priests as soon as possible. This wise and deelpy thoughtful talk must reach the whole Catholic Church; it is imperative. This and what happened to Fr Calvin is the Holy Spirit talking.
My first experience of Dr. Ashenden. His analysis of Anglicanism and feminism is absolutely correct. The barbarians are not only at the gates, but inside the walls. The woke babel must be defeated.
Though now a Catholic, Dr. Ashenden still cares deeply about his Anglican brethren and remains a resonant voice standing against the wayward tide swamping Anglicanism.
Thanks and God bless, both you and Calvin make such sense in the wild wild west.
Bravo! Another virtuoso performance from Dr Ashenden.
I sm Greek Orthodox and am appalled.
I actually but does Pope Frances agree with with this?
Ditto
Thank you for your talk, Gavin.
Thank you so much for standing with Fr. Calvin Robinson... He absolutely didn't deserve this... I am a protestant woman and I totally agree that men should not be ordained nor become pastors or preachers... Praying for Him and for you to continue being truthful to our Holy Scriptures.
I wish I had just a smidgen of his courage. Yours too. You both have an incredible ability to put things into words. Very concise words
I wish for that courage as well!
No matter where you go Anglicanism remains a house of theological confusion much like bergolianism.
"Bergoglianism". An amazing new word for our language, brother!
Dr. Ashenden for this troubled cradle R.C. at 73 , I have been for a long time interested in the Anglican Church both here in the U.S. and in G.B.. Both in the way it was founded in the 1500’s and its subsequent evolution. My Anglican friend in the 1960’s almost gloated when the R. C. church switched to the vernacular in the Mass advising me that it only took 400 years to catch up to the Anglicans! Amen! But it is my sincere belief that we will never catch up to the changes currently endorsed by the Episcopal hierarchy. When the Archbishop of Canterbury invites his fellow Anglicans to walk together they don’t hear him mutter under his breath “But in my direction.”
As a member of the ACNA and my husband as one of the priests in our local parish, I am so sorry this happened at this conference. Whether some hold to women’s ordination and others don’t, there is no need for canceling anybody. I personally do not subscribe to women’s ordination, but there is an opportunity to be more charitable than what happened. I do understand that Father Calvin did stray from the topic at hand. Such a shame. I hope that he along with all the others in charge of the conference will be able to maintain an irenic spirit, rise above this, and continue their wonderful ministries. Lord, in your mercy hear our prayer.
He was invited to speak in an echo chamber the purpose of which was to keep reaffirming their beliefs. CR however confronted them with The Truth and evil does not like the Truth.
How did Father Calvin stray from the topic at hand?
Well said Gavin, I hear echoes of that hymn we used to sing at morning assembly in school: Faith of our fathers Holy Faith, we will be true to thee til death. Show us your face Lord and we will be saved. God Bless.
Sadly I hear morning assembly in State schools no longer happens. Unless you send your children to a private Christian school which I did for my mine. These Christian schools are now under attack because of the trans issues and children who want to identify as such.
Same problem as Socrates had. He exposed the intellectual bankruptcy of the Sophists etc., proved that they knew nothing and they didn't like it. He got cancelled as well.
Very good - spot on.
Sophism is one of the 2 strands in Sufism. It still has a huge impact.
(the other is gnosticism.)
Justin Welby should resign and Calvin Robinson take over the church.
Thank you Dr Ashendon. I will continue to pray for Church unity. God bless you.
The saddest thing of all was that the anglicans looked only at the color of Calvin’s skin as a prerequisite for his speaking. Shame on their blindness. Once again, religion has been replaced by social emphasis. Jesus cries.
Thank you, Gavin. I belong to a church in the ACNA and I am concerned about the possibility of a further split. I also have been teaching part time at Fuller Seminary in Southern California. Last year they came out with a statement on women which used critical theory to support the ordination of women. They made it very clear that women’s ordination could not be questioned. Now they have formed a committee on sexuality, and I will bet you any money that they will change their community standards and teachings on sexuality towards a more liberal position and will use critical theory to justify it. At which point I will resign. So I can see Calvin’s point.
Women who are called to be nuns, consecrated virgins or single women are no less feminine than mothers. When femininity is discussed by some in the RC church it is often with a very narrow outlook that doesn’t fully respect the stature and dignity of women who chose not to be mothers. As a woman, of course I’m against the ordination of women, but with all due respect, Gavin needs to stop thinking of just mothers when he talks about the role of women in the church.
Dr Ashenden, enjoyed your presentation. Must clear something you maybe ignorant of. The ACNA, especially the Diocese of South Carolina, is not orthodox Anglicanism. While there maybe some orthodox Anglicans within the ACNA, as a whole the ACNA is just the The Episcopal Church one second prior to the laying on of hands to Vickie Gene Robinson. The openly homosexual man who was made a bishop in the TEC. Up to then, except for the Reformed Episcopal Church which sadly joined the ACNA, those in the ACNA were perfectly content to remain TEC. Far too many in the ACNA have the title Anglican, but have no clue what being an Anglican means. The ACNA bishops in the paper you reference did admit that Women Ordination in not in scripture, tradition or history, but decided to go against all of that to allow WO. This was in 2017. As an aside, the ACNA is not in communion with each other. Liberalism and feminism run the shop in mainline. I have to disagree with you about how Anglicanism can not resist feminism and liberalism. The Continuing Anglican Churches, though very tiny in the UK, is growing not only in the US, but Africa etal. We have successfully kept liberalism and feminism out of the church. Our Bishops work together to make it so. I guess our form of magisterium. We look to scripture, councils, tradition. If it is not allowed by scripture, it is not allowed. If it is not allowed by a Council of the Church, it is not allowed. We have no movement among us of liberalism of any sort nor feminism. The only females allow near the altar is the altar guild and none of the ladies object. We go even further than the Roman Catholic Church and do not all for altar girls, which you call servers. In many ways we are like the Latin Mass Catholics. So there are Anglicans who are standing fast on the faith. We have suffered greatly from the CoE and the TEC, stolen property and money. Just as not all Roman Catholics follow everything Pope Francis and Fr James Martin support and try to push on the church, there are Anglicans who also stand fast. Anglicanism will survive, it is not lost. Only the chafe (protestant) is being burned away. As Pope Benedict predicted in the 60's (?) or 70's, the church must shrink to be smaller but more authentic and faithful to Christ. Both the Anglican and Roman Churches are going through the vision Pope Leo X gave us in the 19th Century. It is being played out before our eyes. The time of tribalism has to end. As Franklin said, "We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." God bless your ministry and thank you for your defense of Fr Calvin. Know the orthodox Anglicans here in the States are as we say "up in arms" about his treatment. The venue was Mere Anglicanism and some now question if it will recover and is it worth supporting. Fr Calvin did a wonderful job is shaking awake the sleeping orthodox clergy in the ACNA, yes there are a few.
Thank you, Dr Ashenden for this review of the problems in the Anglican 'church'. I am reminded of the remark made by Malcolm Muggeridge that is the Church of England were disestablished, it would be seen to have ceased to exist. It is, in other words, nothing but an empty shell, providing employment and preferment and privilege to certain people, who only have to pretend to be Christian.
William does not wish to head of their church.
Thank you for explaining the crisis in an understandable language, I get it now. 🙏
This is absolutely staggering, the implications. I had a strange feeling that something huge and dire was happening in the Anglican church; but did not realise that it could be as devsatating as this. Something told me today, to go to a Catholic service......
Have you followed the pope lately?
Thank God for true men of God , like Calvin Robinson.
500 years of Ecumenism is over, hooray! Someone should whisper that in the ear of the Roman encumbent…
I'm afraid the ear of this particular incumbent is stopped. But no one thinks or claims the individual pope can ever be without error. This one has a lot of error. We pray for him. (and for his successor!)
It's just beginning! This week Anglicans have been invited by Pope Francis to invade St. Peter's Basilica and other Catholic churches and to celebrate the Eucharist and Evensong in Catholic churches. And Pope Francis is going to commission pairs of Anglican and Catholic bishops for joint mission! In Pope Pius XI’s 1928 encyclical Mortalium animos, Catholic participation in Protestant ceremonies or “assemblies” was expressly forbidden. Pius XI wrote: "… it is clear that the Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics either to support or to work for such enterprises; for if they do so they will be giving countenance to a false Christianity, quite alien to the one Church of Christ." Does Rome have even a shred of credibility when it violates its own magisterial teaching within less than a century??? So much for an unchanging, perennial and rock-solid magisterium!
@@CatholicZealot My tiny Church at the bottom of the hill is a Victorian Church built in Victorian slums and was and is supported by the poorest.
It naturally looks up at the Grand Anglican Church at the top of the Hill in the centre of the town, bearing the same name,1/2 of which is the original ancient Catholic Church.
Consequently it's very hard to see this thru PFs eyes, the only thing and the Cof E have in common is a rainbow agenda, so there is that.
Well spoken Gavin, I wholeheartedly agree. I became Catholic 3 1/2 yrs ago and I most certainly do not feel it is a case of out of the frying pan into the fire.
Brilliant take on the rot within the "church!" However, Calvin is being used as an instrument for good under the direct guidance of the Trinity. Even though he's being "flogged" at every opportunity for being unwavering in his defense of the Gospel, he'll stand solid like a lighthouse in a tempestuous sea, on the rock of his salvation. May God's glory continue to be shown by Calvin's obedience to Him, who "holds him by the scruff of his neck," no matter what may happen.
The thing is, ACNA was formed to be an orthodox, conservative lifeboat for those who wanted to escape the increasing chaos in the Episcopal Church.
Yes, that's why the compromises it has made to progressive ideology are so sad- and problematic.
@@DrGAshenden It's what happens when you have a tighter hold on tradition than Scripture.
@@martinploughboy988 Very true! And that tradition contradicts itself repeatedly over the centuries and thrives on encrustations that have no basis in apostolic teaching or even in the teaching of the church fathers.
@@CatholicZealot This is a potentially interesting comment, too good to leave hanging in the air. Can you give a few examples?
@@tumbletoes909 The Vatican's prefect for the Congregation (Dicastery) of the Doctrine of the Faith himself admits that the church has changed it's position on a variety of doctrines and disciplines that were once regarded as anchored in firm tradition and the magisterium. For examples, the 'perfidious' Jews were repeatedly condemned by the Church. Vatican 2 now maintains that they are "beloved of God" and God has not abrogated his covenant with them. The fudge that the Catholic hierarchy will use when it changes 'tradition' is that it will claim that this is a 'doctrinal development.' Usury, slavery, (no) salvation outside the Church, clerical celibacy, etc. are other examples. And don't forget, three popes in a row condemned heliocentricism as 'formal heresy.'
Absolutely, completely brilliant. Thank you.
Dr Ashenden. Fifty five years trying to find an abode in Anglicanism persuaded me it was not possible. Not on offer. Like you I have become Catholic. Even with the Francis disaster I am certain that the relocation was right.
Glad to be in such good company. Great to meet you here.
Francis the wrecker should not be able to get between us and our Lord’s good purpose
I am an Anglican in Australia, and I often listen to these videos from you, Calvin, and others of the same ilk. I disagree with much of what you assert, but I enjoy so much the intelligent and thoughtful way you present your views. And I appreciate the opportunity to listen to and understand what you think and believe. I am utterly opposed to cancelling as in cancel culture. As an idea, it is the complete opposite to the academic training I received as an undergraduate and postgraduate student. The whole practice of debating. One must learn to argue ones point. Its inevitable that one will disagree with others, but one cannot run away from the debate. Cancellation is the enemy of debate. So I will continue to listen and learn.
Well said. Rousing.
Excellent, sir! Pray for us, Holy Mother of God!
Cardinal Ratzinger warned about relativism in the church catholic. At the same time established the Personal Ordiniariates for affected Anglicans
I was an Anglican priest for 15 years and found that I could no longer exist in that environment. I am now a transitional deacon in the Catholic Church and look forward to priesthood in a few months.
So will you bless gays?
Congratulations. What a joy.
@@bibsann861 I will bless any individual who asks for a blessing but no couple who is not in a “regular” marriage or premarital relationship.
Whoever told Calvin not to rock the boat hasnt read their bible too well
Matthew 10:34-36:
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s foes will be those of his own household.”
The truth has a particular habit of rocking the boat when the boat has been built on lies.
Go Calvin go. Go. So thankful for him. I can't imagine that Mary would ever have wanted these things. Her serene power did not come from battling it out for it.
I can't see how you can honestly call the Anglican church a "noble ecumenical experiment". Especially considering how it was started with Henry VIII thinking that he actually had the right to do so. He was never given the authority from Christ to do so. And look how it just helped to divide and fracture Chistendom.
I sympathise with your response. I was quoting my diocesan bishop - who although claiming to be a Catholic Anglican has remained Anglican through its degeneration. They were his words which got me thinking.
No-one would call Henry the 8th a godly person, but God frequently uses just such people at times to bring about his purposes. Jehu for instance was raised up to rid the land of the dreadful legacy of Ahab and Jezebel, after which renewal came (see 2 Kings 9 to 12). The book of Habakkuk is another example. At the time of Henry 8th Roman Catholicism was thoroughly corrupt, and God used Henry to destroy its power, ushering in room for the Reformation, one of, if not the greatest, moves of God in the last 2,000 years. Sadly many of the denominations and renewal movements it spawned are as apostate in the west as Catholocism was 500 years ago. Thus what is needed today is not a return to Catholicism, or any other 'ism', but a new Reformation to bring the church back to Jesus and its biblical roots - and that includes the Catholic Church.
@@rolfburnie9068 I admire Gavin's wisdom and erudition, but he looses credibility when he pretends that Luther suddenly came along when all was hunky-dory and began attacking the Roman church because he was an ill-tempered, constipated, Augustinian monk. And, Gavin inevitably fails to mention that Luther did not leave the Catholic Church to start another church, he was excommunicated.
@@Blissblizzard fixed. Thanks
While I agree that Calvin Robinson has been appallingly treated I was stunned Gavin chose to attack his old friend Kevin Kallsen host of Anglican Unscripted. Kevin may not have invited a witness onto his show who Gavin approves of but he was a witness and Kevin, himself, did not come across as anti Calvin at all, far from it. For Gavin to publicly assert fellow Christian conservative Kevin "did not want" Calvin to give his own account seems impetuous and spiteful. Is an old score being settled? Having held Gavin in the highest esteem I am disappointed.
I am a Catholic who loves the high church liturgy. I sometimes watch the Mass (yes I am aware of the is or is it not because of Leo XIII) at Saint Margaret's in London. however the moment I see a women in a chasuble., no matter how lovely the music or how cloudy the incense I go click and turn it off. Why? Because a woman "priest" is transgenderism in a chasuble. As a Catholic the Mass is the sacramental un-bloody re-presentation of that one sacrifice Christ made on the cross. The priest offers the Mass in persona Christi.
The sacrifice of Christ was made by a biological male whose Divinity cannot be separated from His humanity. The priest is obliged to offer in the totality of Christ's reality as both a human biological male, whose masculine identity was united to his Divinity in a way I cannot fathom expect by faith. A woman pretending to re- present Christ's sacrificial offering flies in the face of an historic and objective reality. It is fundamentally false. This proclaims God's choice to incarnate His Son as irrelevant, which is false.
Furthermore the non Scriptural woman "priest" is a cheeky bit of pride and sinfully presumptuous given that the Holy Virgin Mary was never given this privilege in God's Divine plan. The irony is that Mary by her constant intercession for the church, fulfills and exemplifies the importance of women in God's eyes in way never equaled an ocean filled with priestesses en costume for Halloween. As an organist I have worked for Protestant woman ministers. They were kind, most exceptionally intelligent, and excellent preachers but presiding over a memorial communion service is not the Mass. Dr Ashenden has clearly pointed out that a functional definition of ministry is miles apart from one that is sacramental. As to Calvin, he would make a good Cardinal. Whatever his other theological peculiarities he is far more trustworthy and more ORTHODOX than Francis and his BFF familiar T Fernandez.
I find the cancellation subversive and despicable as they had to know Calvin’s position. Gavin, please speak more about feminism. As a 60 yr old female I am always discovering ways it has seeped into my consciousness even while resisting it culturally. Especially through the Protestant naïveté that formed me.
Check out a book called Occult Feminism by Rachel Wilson.
as a Catholic I applaud you....stay true even when standing alone and deserted
It’s not true to say Protestantism has ran out of steam as the numbers say that RC and other main line denomination are declining. Growing churches are independent Protestant. The facts are sometimes inconvenient.
Yes Christianity had become or is becoming a popular movement. Turning the teaching of Jesus into a sort of vending machine, take what you want but not the whole.
@@octuple505 Or added to Scripture such as infant baptism, confession, the Mass, worshipping of idols while denying the supremacy of Scripture & salvation by faith alone.
Thankyou Martin Luthifer the very inventor of New Age "Christianity" with his castrated Canon
@@Basaljet he was right on most things but the schism opened the door,
The Western Catholic Church is not a denomination. It is true to say that a reform movement predicated on a political misreading or 16C politics and theology has run out of steam. How could not since the circumstances it claimed to protest against have changed so radically. You need to give some evidence of the numbers you rely on to make your argument I'm afraid.
I find Dr Ashenden wonderfully wise. I now deeply regret voting for women priests and feel they are destroying the Church from within. I am so glad to discover that I am not alone in my view. In fact, I have returned to Catholicism because it, at the moment anyway, holds fast to the Christian Doctrine and does not yield to secular demands.
Reformed baptist here. I am annoyed by how a brave chap like Calvin has been treated. One scripture that comes to mind is the warning against “quarrels about words” from 1 Times 6:3-5; because it’s impossible to define any term to 100% exactitude, people can play evasive language games. This is what results in the nuancing to death of discourse - it’s an intentional facet of deconstruction to argue that because definitions are not ABSOLUTE, they are not USEFUL or MEANINGFUL. However, if everyone in the tribe calls the creature a “buffalo”, then “buffalo” it is, and such it is with woke.
God bless Calvin..!!! ❤❤❤
Thank you Dr Ashenden. You are so easy to listen to! Calvin needs to convert. He 'd be a great asset to the Church.
Dr Ashenden you're an educated gentleman so I suspect you know that Protestantism wasn't and isn't "make it up as you go along", to call it such is disingenuous.
I am in agreement with Dr. Gavin...brave and speaks the Truth.
An excellent analysis. Thank you.
I was brought up Roman Catholic, and the reasons you have laid out in your video are partly why I converted to Eastern Orthodoxy - although, there were very many other reasons.
GOD BLESS HIM AND KEEP HIM STRONG…BELIEVE ME HE WOULD BE GREATLY CELEBRATED IN MANY CHURCHES…
It is always a good time to be a Roman Catholic.
I hope you are correct in your suggestion that the American Anglican Church is unraveling. We can only pray that the damage done by Pope Francis is limited and correctable so as to bring more souls to our Lord and His Father.
You note that the errors of Pope Francis largely mimic protestant errors.
Let's fix it by holding to the truth and keeping the lights on so that our Anglican siblings have a place to come.
I'm a member of an Anglican church in Hampshire. We have a reverend who is female to which does not concern me however some traditions that are pegan in origin do. What am I to do in this regard as in need a place of worship that has not been infiltrated by the great deceiver the devil! Please help my brothers & sisters to find a worthy place of worship 🙏 ❤️
Quite agree with everything you said. Im a big supporter of Calvin, he said in an interview i saw somthing along the lines of, we are all going to have to start and stick our necks out for Solo Scriptura. We are going to be hard ad direct. They removed him and they looked like the idiots. How dare they, typical extreme left. Preach open and acceptance when actually nothing is further from the truth. As Paul used to say, persecution is the refiner. To Calvin, Joyful Endurance in Tribulation, Exemplary Conduct. I still find it so hard to beleive that there is so much corruption in the church leaderships, so much divergence from Scripture, these places will lose the power of God, through the word and will die
Great talk; I truly respect Calvin Robinson and pray that one day he will come home to the RC church. Last year I attended a funeral in San Diego, held in a borrowed Lutheran prayer hall, with a small table, not an altar. It was officiated by a woman in priestly/priestess robes, which was actually hilarious! It just looks weird. Anyway, here some some highlights (lowlights??):
Throughout the so-called "Mass", God was referred to by the pronouns "she" and "her"... Said priestess inserted into her homily "...as Roman Catholics..." several times! I silently asked the question, "Then why are you not in a Roman Catholic church right now, lady?!" ... The "Our Father" was so different I hardly recognized it... There was no consecration, obviously, but the priestess passed around the obligatory trays with chunks of bread and tiny paper cups of grape juice. I was polite and stood or sat with the group of mourners, but I would not do any responses/songs, or partake of the phony communion. I told my husband and daughter not to take the food, but they did anyway, much to my chagrin, saying "It's only bread." That's true, but they didn't get the fact that, in doing so, they were playing along with, and giving credence to, the heretical travesty. The radical feminists simply don't want to acknowledge that 1.) Jesus didn't choose women for the priesthood and 2.) A priest stands in for Jesus at the Eucharist, in persona christi. Blessings to you!😄
So beautifully explained. Thank you, Dr Ashenden. From Adelaide, Australia.
What a lucid, well-reasoned, and moving address. Thank you.
There is a book called The Little Healer and it’s a book about a child who lived on a small island who healed. The book is not easy to find about the beautiful child Linda Martel but it is a beautiful read. The one thing in the book it does mention is Linda told her mother and she said positively “one day you will know” - this puzzled the author as to what she was referring to. To me it is so clearly obvious, Linda in her healing referred to her Jesus infact she knew of him before the age of five from her experiences through her healing. Linda was they say older for her years. But getting back to her term “ one day you will know” I believe she was saying that in these times something will happen so profound will happen that the Christ energy or the Christ will be seen and we will know that he does exist. This in turn will make those that have turned away from the bible to realise their terrible mistakes
"Christ energy"? Sounds very New Age, which is understandable as the Adversary often presents himself as an angel of light, as St. Paul writes. Children are often his target.
But that doesn't mean that the true Holy Spirit does not use children either to present the Kingdom.
We are, however, exhorted to test the spirits. Deception has been burgeoning since the early 1900s, especially Spiritually, and has infested the Church Politic badly. It seems to be cyclic, imo.
BTW, 'Christ' (Latin/English) came from 'Christus' (Greek), which followed 'Maschiac' (Hebrew), all meaning 'Messiah', and is a *title,* not an name.
This is actually proficiency
Proficiency ? I did write it myself from my own personal experience as she would now be the similiar age to me if , she had lived. Coincidently I was only this afternoon talking to a second hand book seller who had spoken to one of her descendant’s relatives, he was trying to research more of her story and her miracles
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Not her miraculous. All belongs to Him. Linda was the instrument. Bless you.
Feminism is one of the favorite expressions of the Spirit of Jezebel, named after a famous heroine in the Old Testament. Even the Prophet Elijah had gotten under its influence and despite all his previous spiritual actions and authority, tried to escape, hide and wanted to die. So intimidating can be this spiritual power.
Thank you Gavin for your excellent presentations.
I would beg to differ with you on Anglicanism, while the church of England is certainly lost. Global Anglicanism, especially in the global south is thriving and orthodox, and in scattered parts of the West. However, I appreciate your thoughts. It was an excellent and enlightening video.
Sorry, but it's worse than nonsense to say that the Anglican Church was a noble experiment in anything. By bloody force the Catholic people of England were wrenched from their one, true and ancient faith--for reasons FAR from noble, having nothing to do with what was good for them and for their souls. Please. But welcome home to the Mother Ship under attack from within as well as, as always, from without: and long live Calvin Robinson as well. He is standing in the gap with you, Dr. Ashenden, and all men who truly follow the Truth to the best of their well-formed consciences. Vivo Christo Re!
Dr. GAVIN , hope fr Calvin Robinson follow your footsteps. Make England Appostolic Church again ‼️
Mere Anglicanism - not Christianity. Many thanks for the contribution. Twisting Scriptures the game being practiced since the Garden days. "Twisting" is the Greek, I read, implied torture being applied to get at the truth. We all know torture produces lies.