Posted on 10/05/2016 5:34:27 PM PDT by marshmallow
Despite many worthy Anglican-Catholic initiatives this week, true unity remains a distant dream.
As part of a week of festivities marking half a century of Anglican-Catholic dialogue, nineteen pairs of Anglican and Catholic bishops from around the world will be commissioned tomorrow to embark on a joint mission to spread the Gospel.
The initiative will be launched at an ecumenical vespers service in Rome’s San Gregorio al Cielo church, attended by Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Justin Welby.
The joint mission is the fruit of dialogue undertaken by the International Anglican Roman Catholic Commission on Unity and Mission. The commission’s Catholic bishops and their Anglican counterparts have been taking part in a summit that began in Canterbury on Sept. 30 and concludes in Rome on Friday.
Also being celebrated this week is the 50th anniversary of the Anglican Center in Rome which was opened in 1966 after the historic meeting in Rome between the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsey, and Pope Paul VI. The center is aimed at helping to foster unity.
Archbishop Welby will be in Rome for all the week’s events and will have his third private meeting with Pope Francis tomorrow. In a symbolic gesture, he will be wearing the papal ring that Paul VI presented Archbishop Ramsey at the Vatican.
The Anglican Communion is keen to trumpet this week’s events as evidence of “closer and deeper” Catholic-Anglican relations, and a time for leaders of both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion to “look ahead to opportunities for greater unity.”
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a genuine reconciliation, if not a unity, looked (imho) to be possible...until the Anglican Church went off the rail on such matters as ordination and homosexual behavior and and and and.....
I’m confident that the divide will be amelioratable just as soon as the Anglican Church gets back into the Biblical fold on faith and especially morals, just my opinion. we will see...
The Anglican Church’s infatuation with social issues such as acceptance of homosexuality as normal and the ordaining of homosexual priests and bishop’s, same sex marriage and on and on. This will forever stand between the churches.
There was a time when the Episcopal Church, the Anglican Church in the USA, was known as the “Republican Party at Prayer” Since the sixties it has gradually taken a 180 degree turn.
It was Paul VI who started the ridiculous false recognition of Anglicans having valid "bishops".
On the Nullity of Anglican Orders
Apostolicae Curae
Promulgated September 18, 1896 by Pope Leo XIII
By the way, it was Pope Leo XIII who had the terrible vision of the future of the Catholic Church. Because of that, he composed the prayer to St. Michcael the Archangel and ordered it to be said after every low Mass.
Guess which pope abolished that practice?
Paul VI.
Guess which pope beatified Paul VI?
Benedict.
My mistake and apologies. It was Pope Francis who beatified Paul VI, not Pope Benedict XVI. I should have known better.
Not completely off: Benedict conferred title of Venerable to Paul VI, so he started the process.
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