Anglican Church abandoned its parishioners

From Canada-

Clearly, all is not well within the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC).

In what could be termed a reverse protestant reformation, Calgary's St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church voted overwhelmingly (90 per cent) to leave the ACC and align itself with Pope Benedict and the Roman Catholic Church. As such, it becomes the first Anglican congregation in Canada to take the Pope up on his October 2009 offer to welcome disillusioned Anglican congregations into the Catholic Church.

But that's where the 'new' news ends because St. John the Evangelist is not, by far, the first church to leave the ACC. In fact, it's only the most recent departure in a decade-long struggle between conservative Anglican parishes and their increasingly liberal leaders.

Since 2007, more than 40 Anglican parishes (including Vancouver's St. John's Shaughnessy -- the largest Anglican congregation in Canada) have left the ACC and joined a parallel governing structure called the Anglican Network in Canada. Globally, they've joined with like-minded churches in the United States to form a wing that functions under the auspices of the worldwide Anglican Church. It comprises some 600 parishes and 100,000 parishioners.

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