Posted on 11/07/2009 12:50:41 PM PST by NYer
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Benedict will hold talks with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on Nov 21 in their first meeting since a Vatican initiative making it easier for disaffected Anglicans to convert to Catholicism.
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said on Friday the spiritual leader of the 77-million member worldwide Anglican communion will meet the pope while he is in Rome for a conference at a Rome pontifical university.
The meeting will take on great significance because it is their first since the Vatican announced a new structure on Oct 20 to welcome conservative Anglicans who want to convert.
The Vatican initiative could lead to hundreds of thousands of Anglican faithful, dozens of bishops and thousands of married Anglican priests converting to Catholicism.
The conservative Anglicans, who oppose female priesthood and gay bishops, will be given their own niche within the Catholic Church and will be allowed to convert as individuals, parishes or even as whole dioceses.
Some have seen the pope's move as an attempt to capitalize on deep divisions in Anglicanism and some Anglicans criticized the Vatican for informing Williams only several weeks before the move was announced to the media.
The biggest single group affected by the Vatican opening is the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), a breakaway group that several years ago petitioned the Vatican to join Catholicism en masse and is said to number some 400,000 members.
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Catholic/Anglican ping!
EWTN just did a rosary dedicated to the injured and those who lost their lives at Ft. Hood.
That’s great! We lowered our flags the day that it happened and yesterday in the State of Florida (well before Bambi realized he should do this) but I haven’t heard any prayers at Mass.
I would like to hear these people prayed for in our diocese.
Ask the priest. Call the office and find out who prepares the prayer list. I’ve done it several times, and they did put the requests into the prayers.
Our pastor, alas, lets whoever is saying the mass pick whatever he wants. I don’t know where these prayers come from (probably the USCCB “social justice” committee), but they’re awful.
We get a new bishop next year. Count down.
I’ll bet the bearded Druid archbishop will protest the Vatican’s invitation for Anglicans fed up with P.C. to become Catholics.
I wish that in reply B-16 would grab the Druid by his beard and whirl him overhead.
I know you’re PAST ready for a new bishop. Guess there’s no question that BXVI will accept his resignation *immediately*, right?
We all believe/hope that. Bp Galeone is actually a nice person and very pro-life, etc. He’s very shy and even though he lives here (at the Cathedral rectory in St A) few people have ever seen him.
I don’t know where his strange liturgical obsessions come from. Even though he has been horrible to friends of mine, I feel bad for him because all he would have had to do was make a tiny gesture of acceptance or even toleration and the entire conservative part of the diocese would have been at his feet. But because he lives in his own world, this would never happen.
In short, bad pick, and I hope his resignation is accepted immediately...and I’m sure, so does he, because he never wanted the job.
Hope Papa bitch slaps Williams!!!!
four or five times...go for it.
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