Ordinariate Reaches Out to Anglicans After Women Bishops Vote

The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 7/15/14 | Staff Reporter

[marshmallow]

The leader of the ordinariate has issued an invitation to Anglicans following the Church of England’s vote to create women bishops.

Mgr Keith Newton, Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, invited Anglicans “considering their future” to attend an “exploration day” in September.

“Having agreed to permit women priests in 1992, the Church of England’s decision to allow women bishops is the next logical step. What is undeniable is that both developments make harder the position of those within the Church of England who still long for corporate unity with the Catholic and Orthodox Churches,” he said.

“Benedict XVl’s decision to set up the ordinariates – allowing former Anglicans to enter the full communion of the Catholic Church, bringing with them much of the Anglican heritage and tradition – was made in response to repeated requests from Anglicans who longed for unity with the Catholic Church. It was a prophetic and generous ecumenical gesture because it demonstrated the possibility of unity of faith with diversity of expression.”

The exploration day, known as Called To Be One, aims to make the ordinariate more widely known and understood. Groups across the country will stage different events on September 6.

[allendale]

The Church of England has devolved into an institution that reflects the values of its decadent founder Henry VIII. It has a hierarchy, much property but few congregants. Its clergy is mostly agnostic. Its bishops no more believe in the divinity of Christ than they do in the tooth fairy. It is an organization of modern neo pagan decadence clearly dominated by homosexuals.

[Biggirl]

Look for the conservative Anglicans to bail out.

[Objective Scrutator]

Female pastors begets sodomy begets bestiality begets pedophilia begets Islam begets atheism begets Darwinism begets Communism. Christianity has been under attack ever since the publication of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, and the attacks have grown ever more relentless and malicious since then. I'm not a Dispensationalist, but when you hear about events like this their position comes off as perfectly reasonable.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

While this is good, I think the Vatican could really land a gut punch by contacting some of the prominent and powerful conservative African Anglican bishops and Archbishops. They have become very upset with the heterodoxy and outright heresy of the CofE and the Episcopal church NA.

While not yet offering them an Ordinariate, the church could offer them “a step closer” to unification, but only without the CofE and the Episcopalians. This would encourage them, along with the other conservative Anglican dioceses, to consider the expulsion of the two.

In past they have seriously considered this, so it might be the final straw that would cause expulsion.

[vladimir998]

are there any left at this point? Can’t be too many!