Churches back plan to unite under Pope - ANGLICAN

Times Online ^ | 2/19/2007 | Ruth Gledhill

[Wonder Warthog]

"That's much more than the "formality" about which you spoke."

"Can" take "up to two years". I don't doubt that there is some training involved in the "specifically Roman Catholic" nuances, but you have to remember that most of these folks have very likely studied most (or all) of those issues on their own before ever deciding to make the switch.

When I used "seminary training", I was specifically using it in the "gotta go back to classes in a formal setting" sense, which almost certainly is NOT the case here. In most cases, I would suspect that it is more like individual tutoring and self-study, and will vary wildly depending on the specific diocese and consenting bishop, and from individual to individual within a given diocese.

The analogous lay situation would be the difference between a candidate and a catechumen in RCIA, or even between an "evangelical Christian" candidate and an "Anglo-Catholic" candidate. The latter would need MUCH less formal "Catholic" instruction than the former.

As an Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian and former altar boy, I could have TAUGHT some sections of the RCIA class when I was converting.

[sitetest]

Dear Wonder Warthog,

"I don't doubt that there is some training involved in the 'specifically Roman Catholic' nuances, but you have to remember that most of these folks have very likely studied most (or all) of those issues on their own before ever deciding to make the switch."

Okay.

But that wasn't what was communicated by:

"I'm pretty sure they do, but I'm also pretty sure it is a 'formality' kind of ceremony (certainly validly sacramental, but not like having to go thru seminary again), since the academic requirements and training for the priesthood in both Anglicanism and Catholicism are so similar."

I was responding to what you previously said that it's pretty much a "formality."

Up to two years of additional training is more than a formality.

By the way, highly-Anglo-Catholic, highly-trained, highly-researched Fr. Al Kimel, who spent a couple of years on-line blogging about his personal introspection about, study of, and journey toward Catholicism, required nearly a year and a half from the time he was received into the Catholic Church until he was ordained a Catholic priest.


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[Wonder Warthog]

"...required nearly a year and a half from the time he was received into the Catholic Church until he was ordained a Catholic priest."

So?? And precisely how much of that "..almost year and a half.." was devoted to training? I'm certain it was NOT a full-time effort.