[NYer]

I'd like to think that they would accept married guys already "in process", at least in some cases.

I am not familiar with the current Anglican approach to divorced priests. It seems only right, from a Catholic perspective, that married seminarians and/or fully ordained priests, go through the normative process to ensure the marriage is solid. A divorced priest would present a scandalous situation in the Catholic Church. Does that make sense to you?

[Salvation]

I agree with your take on the divorced Anglican priests.

[Mad Dawg]

That certainly makes sense. Marriages would have to be seen to be valid, most certainly in the situation where there was a former Spouse (under civil law) still living.

The current pepsicola appraoch to divorced priests, like so much in that communion, is "Hey, whatever."

[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“A divorced priest would present a scandalous situation in the Catholic Church.”

I remember reading about a former Episcopalian accepted into the Catholic priesthood under the Pastoral Provision. His wife divorced him AFTER he was ordained a Catholic priest. He didn’t want the divorce, but couldn’t stop it.

I didn’t see that as a scandal. There will be a number of worse cases that will come out of the woodwork when these Anglicans begin the process of applying for ordination.