re: Episcopal priest caught trying to pickup 14 year old boys

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Literally spoke in parables intending to confuse.

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No, He didn’t.

Good, out the pedo

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No, He didn’t.

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Let me rephrase for you then. He spoke in them knowing people wouldn’t understand.

an old gay man in California is a pedo, I personally am shocked.

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See!? It’s not just the Catholics.

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Episcopal is joking referred to as Catholic Lite.

jesus C ..And we are more worried about green tuna torpedos being tossed onto wnba courts ..this world is upside down man

Gay sex must be okay in the Episcopal Bible.

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Reverend Roger Haenke, with St. John's Episcopal Church, was seen emerging from his home with his husband after being confronted.

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Someone here once trolled me asking for examples of why the Episcopal Church in America has ceased to be a part of Christ’s Church and had become blasphemous and heretical.

This whole story is just one example. And why millions of orthodox traditional Episcopalians fled years ago and have realigned with others globally that believe, preach, and teach Christ’s Gospel.

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Episcopalians and Anglicans (which are more socially conservative Episcopalians) may resemble Catholicism in liturgy, as the Episcopalians and Anglicans like the pomp and circumstances of a Catholic Mass, but they greatly differ on a lot of theology and ideology (Eucharist, Catholic Tradition, sola scriptura, Mary, Holy See and magisterium, many of the sacraments, and so on).

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A reasonable take on things but lacking on a couple of points.
Anglicans that you refer to as more socially conservative Episcopalians are also conservative theologically and adhere to an older, traditional, and orthodox Christian faith.

In fact many Episcopalians that left the mainline denomination over its virtual total abandonment of biblical, traditional Christian beliefs intentionally adopted the label Anglican to differentiate themselves from the heretical Episcopal denomination. That’s not always effective because the Church of England is THE Anglican mother church and it’s every bit the mess its American counterpart is. Possibly worse in some arenas like abortion up to nine months and promoting euthanasia.

Some so called “conservative” Anglican groups allow or even encourage ordination of women. My Anglican denomination does not allow this. I believe women’s ordination is the camel’s nose under the tent that ultimately destroyed the American Episcopal “Church” and led to its embracing the ordination of practicing homosexual men and lesbians as priests. Even at one point making a homosexual man who left his wife and children a bishop and sanctioned and celebrated his marriage to his male partner.

Respecting liturgy:
There is very much similarity between Anglican and Roman Catholic liturgy, particularly the Roman Latin Mass but not because of “pomp and circumstances”.

Read an older Anglican/Episcopal missal or prayer book and compare it to the English translation of the Roman Catholic Latin Mass and in many places they are word for word. Often elements are in different places. For example the Gloria in excelsis in the Latin Mass is sung after the Kyrie Eleison, well before distribution of the elements of Holy Communion and in the 1928 American Mass it’s after the distribution of the elements following immediately after the prayer of Thanksgiving.

The reason for both Anglicans and Roman Catholics sharing a common liturgy is that the liturgy, liturgies, are old and Christ’s Church has worshipped liturgically using one form or another almost from its inception. It’s not a matter of Pomp or Circumstances. It’s part and parcel of appropriate reverential worship of Almighty God.

You are absolutely correct respecting differences on many points of theology, doctrine, scripture, sacraments, dogma, and ecclesiology. They blame Protestants and Protestants blame them and very few on either side are willing to put in the work to find the many points of agreement, actual or potential, and strive for a return to an undivided Holy Catholic Church.