“And the fallout from this undiplomatic move by the Vatican is yet to be felt” Pope Benedict’s overture to languishing Anglicans is hardly undiplomatic. I agree with the NYT author that it is a very symbolic gesture made in a Europe of increasingly anti-Christian sentiment. The Anglican Church is filled with ex Catholics and historically Anglo-Catholics who have changed not only the evangelical nature of the Anglican/Episcopal Church but have placed in question its very Protestantism. Because so many Roman Catholics exited their church because of divorce or birth control issues, the churches that they subsequently adopted took on a more Romanish air. Even the Methodist Church, so long a bastion of Protestant American homespun, recently embraced the Roman Catholic/Episcopal event of Blessing of the Animals in early October. The Episcopal Church in America and the Anglican Church in Britain are suffering from the liberal influence of leadership that has lost any sense of Christian identity or purpose. Many congregants have sought to be placed under the authority of the Anglican Church in Africa, a very conservative and orthodox branch of the denomination. Of course, the RC church has welcomed anyone wishing to convert to its doctrine, but Pope Benedict’s “mass invitation” comes at a time when traditional Christians, and there are many left in Anglicanism, are seeking to be led by someone who at least recognizes that “the devil”, in the guise of the enemies of Christianity,” still prowls looking for someone to devour.”