[FormerACLUmember]

"In practice, it means the Anglican Communion will be accepted as a distinct form of liturgy within the church," Archbishop Hepworth said.

If the Catholics accept this agreement, and I believe they will, there will be 400,000 to 1,000,000 new Roman Catholics in the US fleeing the gay mafia that seized control of their former hierarchy.

I have met married Catholic Priests who were Lebanese Maronite rite Catholics.

[lightman]

As I posted on a similar thread a few days ago, this conservative Lutheran fervently hopes that there will be a simultaneous parallel effort to establish an "Augustana Rite".

Similar results could happen once the GLBT agenda is adopted at the next ELCA Churchwide Assembly this August.

[pbear8]

If the Catholics accept this agreement, and I believe they will, there will be 400,000 to 1,000,000 new Roman Catholics in the US fleeing the gay mafia that seized control of their former hierarchy.

And they will be most welcome.

[NYer]

I have met married Catholic Priests who were Lebanese Maronite rite Catholics.

Yes ... the Eastern Churches allow for a married priesthood under very strict and limited conditions. Only recently, our Abouna explained how this "works" in the East but could not succeed in the West. The Maronite Church is founded on monastacism and still places greater emphasis on a celibate priesthood.

[kalee]

I am a member of the Anglican Church in America, the American branch of the TAC, and there is already revolt in the pews and at the parish level over this. Abp. Hepworth will not have the numbers he has now when this is accomplished, if it is.