• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Anglican Catholic Church

    The church part of the name isn’t what really gets me. How can a schisim(from the episcopalians) of an offshoot(from the church of England) of a schisim(from the Catholic Church) proclaim itself katholikos (universal).

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      4 days ago

      Meanings of words evolve. They’re refering to the belief system rather than to the original meaning and ethymology. But when you know it does sound funny.

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        4 days ago

        Yeah it’s just the Catholics, with their belief in universal authority of the Pope, actually still embody that original etymology.