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To: bobjam
One of the big stumbling blocks to Anglo-Catholic reunion has been the question of Anglican orders.

This is correct. However, the TAC has recently documented that their orders are through the PNCC. Rome has always acknowledged the validity of PNCC orders. So this gives the Vatican a way to recognize TAC orders without reversing the "absolutely null and utterly void" declaration.

20 posted on 05/26/2005 8:15:54 AM PDT by trad_anglican
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To: trad_anglican

If Anglican orders were "absolutely null and utterly void" 100 years ago, then how could Rome recongnize TAC orders as valid? The clergy who left for TAC were ordained by the same bishops as the clergy who stayed. Therefore, if those bishops and the clergy who stayed are invalid, then the initial TAC priests were invalid as well. Were all TAC clergy re-ordained by Polish bishops? What rite was used?


23 posted on 05/26/2005 9:04:15 AM PDT by bobjam
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