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You will find that petitioning the saints is steeped in historical precedent and is not just a hallmark of the Catholic Church, but also the Orthodox, and interesingly enough, the Anglican Church.

There are two reasons it remains in the Anglican church:

1) There were and remain factions within the Anglican Church that maintained a much more Roman ceremony and theology. The most prominent factions did not, and the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion are, in fact, thorough-going Protestant. (Which is why most Anglo-Catholics today are quite ambivalent toward them.)
2) The Oxford Movement, which revived Romanism within the Anglican church in the 1800's. See here and here.

A possible third reason, which is inferrence on my part, is the trend of liberal theology to embrace any form of religion they consider "inclusive." Prayer to Mary, for example, is certainly attractive to feminists.


Kyle

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified.