“Hundreds of disillusioned Anglicans were preparing Sunday to defect from the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church in time for Lent, Sky News reported. “
Defect? I don’t think that’s an appropriate term. If anyone decides to leave Church A for Church B for whatever reason they choose, there is no reason to put as nefarious a term as “defect” upon such an act.
Maybe it’s a UK thing.
IMO, it was the Church of England that defected. The people want the God Who is the same yesterday, today and forever.
It’s not a UK thing. It’s a media thing. They like to sensationalise everything. “Defect” implies dissention and distrust and disharmony. On this issue that exists, but actually, there is far more agreement than disagreement in both Catholicism and Anglicanism. That is not as newsworthy of course.