Christianity: Details about 'The Ancient Apostolic Communion'
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The Ancient Apostolic Communion was formed out of the Continuing Apostolic United States Episcopacy (CAUSE) in August of 2002. It was founded to answer a call for more liberty in liturgical worship and to give the freedom to ordain women to all ranks of the clergy. In recent months, the Ancient Apostolic Communion, has stood firmly on the side of those in the Roman Catholic Church who are disenfranchised by the recent Instruction on homosexuals in seminaries. In a paper entitled , His Holiness, Patriarch Anthony I, set the course of the church on this very sensitive issue. His paper makes it clear that they believe the Bible does not outright condemn homosexuality and that there is no church history to back up the claim that the church prohibited it either. The first in a long line of controversies came with the introduction of His Holiness' letter entitled . In this letter, he attacked the notion of an all male priesthood and established norms for the ordaining and consecrating of women to all ranks of the clergy.
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