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Catholic Church Makes 'Stunning' Move
AOL News ^ | 10/20/09 | JAMES GRAFF

Posted on 10/20/2009 4:49:46 PM PDT by Bokababe

(Oct. 20) -- The number of married Catholic priests could grow sharply as the result of the Vatican's epochal decision to welcome thousands of disaffected Anglicans and Episcopalians into the Catholic Church.

At press conferences in Rome and London on Tuesday, Vatican officials announced that the Church would set up a special canonical structure that will ease the conversion of members of the Anglican Communion without them having to give up what the Vatican called "the distinctive Anglican spiritual and liturgical patrimony." That means not only a body of prayers and hymns, but also a tradition of married priests and bishops.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Mainline Protestant; Worship
KEYWORDS: anglican; catholic; episcopal; tac

1 posted on 10/20/2009 4:49:47 PM PDT by Bokababe
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To: sionnsar

ping


2 posted on 10/20/2009 4:56:52 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: Bokababe

The author is misinformed.


3 posted on 10/20/2009 5:00:06 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Bokababe

Hm. Married bishops? I think not.


4 posted on 10/20/2009 5:09:45 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Pray (Pray!) Oh yes we pray (Pray!) - We've got to pray just to make it today." ---- MC Hammer)
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To: Bokababe

Married priests, si. Married bishops, no.


5 posted on 10/20/2009 5:11:14 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: Bokababe

I’ll bet he’s sorry he asked: “”If anyone has any reason these 2 should not be wed,”


6 posted on 10/20/2009 5:28:27 PM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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To: iowamark

Whoops! Replied to wrong thread.


7 posted on 10/20/2009 5:29:28 PM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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To: Bokababe

WELCOME HOME !!!!!


8 posted on 10/20/2009 6:05:31 PM PDT by terycarl (lurking, but interested and informed)
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To: Bokababe

Welcome home, Anglican and Episcopal brothers and sisters.


9 posted on 10/20/2009 6:27:43 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Bokababe

I don’t think this anything new. There have been Anglican Use Roman Catholic parishes for years.


10 posted on 10/20/2009 7:24:58 PM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: arthurus
Only a few, and only in the U.S., and only under the authority of the local Latin Rite bishop.

This will mean there are many more, they will be worldwide, and they will have their own "reporting structure," so Latin Rite bishops who aren't supportive of reverent liturgy and orthodox teaching won't be able to chase them off their turf.

And it sounds like they'll have permission to continue to ordain married men to the priesthood (not just former Anglican clergy), so that will be another change.

11 posted on 10/21/2009 5:27:44 AM PDT by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed Imposter")
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To: Bokababe

Now all they have to do is realiy come home to the Orthodox Church - Orthodoxy,


12 posted on 10/21/2009 8:31:29 PM PDT by eleni121 (For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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