To: Tantumergo
Yes he is married, as is the Bishop of the Eastern Diocese of the ACA, which is the TAC in America. The Bishop of the Eastern Diocese was also Roman Catholic before he became Anglican.
While they may want to go home, the people in the pews are not ALL so gung-ho with this idea, so as I have said before the numbers will probably be less than Rome or the TAC hierarchy expect. I know of a couple churches who have already left for other jurisdictions. My parish has so far taken a wait and see attitude, but we have told our bishop that we are considering our options. True TRADITIONAL Anglicanism is catholic and reformed. If the laity nad clergy want to be Roman Catholic they should just be honest and convert. But hey, then the clergy couldn't remain clergy and be married, so I doubt that will happen.
43 posted on
12/25/2005 3:42:11 PM PST by
kalee
To: kalee; Tantumergo; sionnsar
Yes he is married, as is the Bishop of the Eastern Diocese of the ACA, which is the TAC in America. The Bishop of the Eastern Diocese was also Roman Catholic before he became Anglican. While it is true that the Eastern Catholic Churches allow for a married priesthood, the marriage must take place before admission to Holy Orders. It is a question of vows.
If, as you noted, both of these Anglican 'bishops' are former RC priests, then they would have taken vows of celibacy. In order to marry, they left the RC Church, became Anglican and now wish to return to the Catholic Church, not only as married priests, but as bishops?! That would have serious repercussions throughout the entire Catholic Church. It would be as precedent setting for the Catholic Church, as was the decision of ECUSA to elect an active homosexual as bishop. I'm not holding my breath on this and neither should anyone else.
57 posted on
12/25/2005 7:46:02 PM PST by
NYer
("Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion")
To: kalee
The Eastern Orthodox and the Greek Orthodox Church are in communion with the Catholic Church and their priests are married.
191 posted on
12/27/2005 8:03:36 PM PST by
McGavin999
(If Intelligence Agencies can't find leakers, how can we expect them to find terrorists?)
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