Posted on 07/02/2024 5:05:42 PM PDT by ebb tide
The Vatican is taking historic strides towards achieving “full communion” with Anglicans who do not ordain female priests. It is doing so by recognizing Anglican holy orders and churches, but not requiring them to merge with or convert to Roman Catholicism.
“We are scheduled to begin our talks at the Vatican this coming September 26-27,” Bishop Ray Sutton, presiding bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church in the U.S., announced in an Ecumenical Relations Task Force Report of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) College of Bishops.
The ACNA bishops, who oversee 128,000 Anglicans in more than 1,000 congregations across Canada, Mexico, and the United States, met during a provincial council from June 20-25 at St. Vincent’s College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
The report reveals that Archbishop Foley Beach, who was then the primate of ACNA; Bishop Eric Menees, the chair of dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church; and Bishop Sutton flew to the Vatican for meetings at the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) in June 2023.
The Anglican bishops held talks with Catholic Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, who was then the adjunct secretary of the DDF, and his assistant, Fr. Andrew Liaugminas, who is seconded to the DDF by the archdiocese of Chicago.
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This correspondent learned of secret meetings between ACNA bishops and top officials at the DDF earlier this year and published an exclusive news story about the historic meeting in the summer edition of Mass of Ages, the quarterly magazine of the Latin Mass Society.
Apostolicae Curae
On the Nullity of Anglican Orders
Pope Leo XIII - 1896
Secret meetings with the Chicoms, secret meetings with the Anglicans. So much for visibilty in FrankenChurch.
And of course, Bergoglio's right-hand heretic, Tucho is leading this latest betrayal of the Catholic Church.
Our local priestess will or will not be included? How about the lesbian ‘Bishop’?
It’s explained in the article.
“...full communion...”
This is not, and never was, “a thing”.
This makes little sense in the context of the Bergoglians’ war on us Latin Mass people. They shoot their mouths off about the Novus Ordo being the “one rite” that everyone must kowtow to, but these Anglicans get to come in and keep their rites? Ecumenism for everyone but us.
I read that as “Full Communism” the first time and was surprised the Church was finally admitting it. :)
What I find hillarious is that it was the Anglicans who were hesitant to "full communion" with FrankenChurch because of Bergoglio's Fiducia Supplicans.
Are they more Catholic than this pope?
My dog is more Catholic than this pope.
You didn’t read the article.
I belong to the Anglican church. I know some of these people that went to these secret talks.
They are not Episcopalians.These people have left the atheist Episcopal church USA far behind because of their lesbians and women priests and bishops and many other things actually.
The exit was painful and a long ordeal. 40 years. Many of the parishes had to leave their church buildings that they had had in their congregation for generations. The struggle has been huge and going on for a long long time. When the split first came, a lot of people went to the Roman church. But a lot of people also went to the Orthodox Church. I myself would have liked to become Orthodox if I could have found a church near me.
I was never wanting to be part of the Roman Church because Even though I had been confirmed in the Episcopal church, I could not take communion in the Roman church until I went through a year of RCIA and underwent a conditional baptism because I was raised in the Baptist church and they don’t issue baptismal certificates.
I went to a Roman Catholic church with my sister and her husband. They came to visit me when and when it came time to take communion, told me to stay in my seat. I never felt so rejected in my I life and I knew that Jesus would not do that to me, and I never went back.
If there’s going to be reconciliation that would be a wonderful thing.
Why have the talks been secret?
If you're unhappy in the Anglican church, why not just convert to the Catholic Church?
If you're happy with the Anglican church, why not just stay where you are?
I do not know no way the article said that he talks were so great. The idea of being in communion is if you go to a town where there’s no Anglican church, you can go to the Catholic Church and receive communion as if you were a member in good standing.
I did read the article. My problem with this is that the Episcopal/Anglican church is in a state of perpetual decline. There is a religious equivalent of Gresham’s Law where the Left Ruins Everything They Touch...Prager I know, but it’s true. Eventually these denominations with have a ‘Bishop Pike’ moment, then the slide begins.
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