[Alex Murphy]

It is my understanding that the talks are ongoing. I believe that after the initial flurry of news, the TAC quite deliberately imposed a code of silence on its dealings with Rome so to keep everything out of the press and so as not to jeopardize the negotiations.

If that's the case, then that means that these "leaks" IMO are coming from sources sympathetic to Rome's position in negotiations, and not from sources synmpathetic to the Anglicans' position.

[Claud]

From my understanding of the Vatican and of Italians, that's not a bad hypothesis. :)

But I don't think the most recent news tidbits are even referring to the TAC...they seem to have been concerned with official Canterbury Anglicanism (which the TAC already separated from), and it also seems to have been more a headline writer's creativity than any solid news.

Personally, I think this whole story has been spun out of whole cloth.