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1. When you reject the Pope, everyone ends up becoming one. The Jensens (Peter and Philip) are no exception. This is just another manifestation of their rabid Calvinsism, with all its perversions of Scripture, Tradition and history. How can this family clique be taken seriously?

   Posted By: Michael Bernard

2. On lay Eucharistic celebration readers might be i
   nterested in my article on the subject in Catholica
   This should pop up under "Casual commentaries"
   
   George Ripon

   Posted By: George Ripon

3. On the one hand, Sydney 'Anglicans' (read: Calvinists) are always quoting scripture to legitimize their views, especially about the nature of the Church they so much want to dismantle, but when they don't get their way, they resort to 'the constitution' (a kind of canon law).
   To borrow from Luther - whom they don't have much time for - surely this is a case of The Babylonian Captivity Of The Church - By Lawyers.
   Of course, in the end, this has nothing to do with the desire to make the Eucharist (a term Peter Jensen has said in my hearing he cannot bring himself to use) more available or to be true to the New Testament. This exercise is simply Sydney's payback to the rest of the Australian Anglican Church for ordaining women to the priesthood.
   While I do not hold with women's ordination, neither do I hold with destroying the Church.
   As always, 'Sydney' is being disingenuous.

   Posted By: Phillip Turnbull

4. Archbishop Jensen should just call the church he wants the 'Evangelical Church of Sydney' and become an extension of 'Hillsong'

   Posted By: david anthony davies

5. Well, so what? Every presider in the Anglican church is a layman anyway - see Leo XIII, 'Apostolicae Curae'. Archbishop Jensen is just acting in accordance with this fact, a fact which he would probably explicitly acknowledge - thus agreeing with Catholic teaching.

   Posted By: John Lamont

6. This is the same bloke who on Compass, the ABC Sunday 18/10/09 said, "far too much emphasis is placed on the bread and wine, after all, the word of GOD is what is important".
   Does this then infer that it always remains just bread and just wine.
   Every day I do thank Almighty GOD for my Catholic Faith, and I try to get to daily MASS as often as I can to witness the great miracle at the Consecration.
   
   

   Posted By: Dean Williams

7. John Lamont: Where in the New testament does it say that only a RC priest may preside at Eucharist. In all probability lay people presided at Eucharist in the New testament Church since the word priest is never used of any individual in the church.

   Posted By: Francis

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