Posted on 10/20/2009 8:59:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
ROME, Italy (CNN) -- The Vatican said Tuesday it has worked out a way for groups of Anglicans who are dissatisfied with their faith to join the Catholic Church.
The process will allow groups of Anglicans, including bishops and married priests, to join the Catholic Church some 450 years after King Henry VIII broke from Rome and created the Church of England.
The number of Anglicans wishing to join the Catholic Church has increased in recent years as the Anglican church has welcomed the ordination of women and openly gay clergy and blessed homosexual partnerships, said Cardinal William Joseph Levada, the head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Their talks with the Vatican recently began speeding up, Vatican officials said, leading to Tuesday's announcement.
"The Catholic Church is responding to the many requests that have been submitted to the Holy See from groups of Anglican clergy and faithful in different parts of the world who wish to enter into full visible communion," Levada said.
Levada said "hundreds" of Anglicans around the world have expressed their desire to join the Catholic Church. Among them are 50 Anglican bishops, said Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia of the Congregation of the Divine Cult.
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The Anglicans will be able to retain their Anglican rites while recognizing the pope as their leader, Vatican officials said. The British monarch is the head of the Anglican Church.
While married Anglican priests may be ordained as Catholic priests, the same does not apply to married Anglican bishops, Levada said.
"We've been praying for this unity for 40 years and we've not anticipated it happening now," Di Noia said. "The Holy Spirit is at work here."
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I guess I must have the AMIA mixed up with the TAC. THe AMIA is the mission of the Southern Cone of the Anglican Communion that planted parishes in the USA essentially in competition with TEC in order to provide refuge for those swamped by feminism and faggotism.
The missal you are talking about is the one I’m thinking of. It is “ok”, so-so, I’d say. I like the idea of missal, with readings and responsorial psalms and hymns all in the same place, and some of the hymns are ok, but they’re all in only one part, iirc, and I don’t like the rewordings as well.
The Adoremus Hymnal I have does not have the readings, so I guess it’s not that one....
Welcome home, Anglican and Episcopal brothers and sisters!
Are you familar with Anglican Use Parishes?
The Church has no problem with women preaches God’s word — many of our greatest saints have been women (see Mother Angelica for one). We don’t have women priests officiating for the simple reason is that we don’t KNOW what would God want on that issue and we don’t see fit to change it. As your statement that you suspect Jesus really wouldn’t care if there were women priests — we’ll wait until He comes and tells us that. We don’t want to go down the path of “reform” as it seems to eventually lead to the ordination of people like Gene Robinson....
The Gay Church takes one down the smokestack.
Really! The fact that a man has a penis and a woman has a vagina? Oh wait, you mean, a woman is way too emotional and a man has a heart of steel? Yeah, I guess that is it, an emotional woman is just not capable of preaching God's word. Hey, thanks for straightening me out......
That is good to hear.
We don’t have women priests officiating for the simple reason is that we don’t KNOW what would God want on that issue
....might I suggest, Prayer!
As your statement that you suspect Jesus really wouldn’t care if there were women priests — we’ll wait until He comes and tells us that.
Again, I would suggest Prayer!
We don’t want to go down the path of “reform” as it seems to eventually lead to the ordination of people like Gene Robinson....
I think that in this case that would be a bit of a stretch, but who knows.
Yes, Prayer — women are as pious as men (some, like me, would argue they are MORE pious). however, priestesses is not on, this has demonstratably led to GeneRobinson.
The difference between a man and a woman is merely reproductive?
Why are you so defensive?
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