In the Anglican Church, any visitor who would normally receive Holy Communion in a different church are welcome to receive the bread and wine in an Anglican church. In an Anglican church all receive the bread and wine; in a Catholic Church the members of the congregation normally receive only the bread. Most do not accept the transformation of the bread and wine at the mass (Holy Communion) into the actual body and blood of Christ, but regard them as symbolic instead. In a Catholic Church, one must be a Catholic if one is to be invited to receive. Anglicans on the whole do not pray to saints, do not regard the Virgin Mary with the same veneration as Catholics, do not require their priests to be celibate, and do not believe in the concepts of purgatory or limbo. Anglicans do not recognise the Pope as the Head of the Church. The monarch of England is the head of the church, which is currently Queen Elizabeth 2nd.
There are 39 Articles are the makeup the documents of Anglicanism, but some Anglicans do not support the document. The major points of difference with Catholicism which are explained in the Articles are:
Source 1: http://www.answers.com/Q/What_are_some_similarities_between_the_Catholic_and_Anglican_churches
(accessed 25th August)
Source 2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_sacraments
(accessed 7th August)
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http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/32258/what-are-the-main-differences-between-anglicanism-and-catholicism
(accessed 30th August)
Christian Ahlgren
There are 39 Articles are the makeup the documents of Anglicanism, but some Anglicans do not support the document. The major points of difference with Catholicism which are explained in the Articles are:
- Anglicanism does not accept the books of the Apocrypha.
- Anglicanism says that our righteousness before God is based only on the excellence of Christ and not the base of our work.
- Anglicanism rejects the Catholic idea of supererogation( which means more work than what is required), that we can perform works above and beyond what God requires.
- One article which is number 20 essentially states that the Church is subservient to scripture, rather than its traditions being of equal authority to scripture.
- Article number 22 rejects purgatory (which is that state after physical death in which those who are destined to go to heaven go through purification, which is to achieve holiness necessary to enter heaven).
- Article number 24 says that the worship of a church must be in the language of the people. This has been changed throughout the years in the Catholicism church, but there have been many times when the mass must be performed in Latin.
- Anglicans believe in only 2 of the 7 sacraments (which are Baptism and Eucharist), which Catholics identifies.
- Anglicans reject the idea of transformation, and that communion is in any way a sacrifice, or that the cup can be denied to the congregation.
- Anglican ministers are allowed to be married compared the catholic ministers that are not allowed to marry.
- Anglicans say that the Bishop of Rome has no authority in England.
Source 1: http://www.answers.com/Q/What_are_some_similarities_between_the_Catholic_and_Anglican_churches
(accessed 25th August)
Source 2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_sacraments
(accessed 7th August)
Source3:
http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/32258/what-are-the-main-differences-between-anglicanism-and-catholicism
(accessed 30th August)
Christian Ahlgren