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To: tlRCta

My understanding is that the TAC clergy may be willing to submit to reordination "sub conditione" by Catholic bishops. There have already been a considerable amount of informal discussions between TAC and Vatican officials and this problem of the ordinations presumably would have been brought up (we know that B-16 is not willing to budge on this question and so does the TAC). There is some info about this in the comments of the article on VirtueOnline.

This proposal would not be the same as the Anglican Use because it would involve the maintenance of separate ecclesiastical structures, just like the Eastern Catholic Churches have. So they'd have their own Bishops, one or more Seminaries, etc., unlike the current AU situation where it is carried out under the aegis of the local Latin Rite bishop.


14 posted on 09/27/2005 4:37:02 PM PDT by gbcdoj (Let us ask the Lord with tears, that according to his will so he would shew his mercy to us Jud 8:17)
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To: gbcdoj; sionnsar; NYer

"This proposal would not be the same as the Anglican Use because it would involve the maintenance of separate ecclesiastical structures, just like the Eastern Catholic Churches have. So they'd have their own Bishops, one or more Seminaries, etc., unlike the current AU situation where it is carried out under the aegis of the local Latin Rite bishop."

The article notes that they're looking to be the 27th ecclesial group accepted into communion with Rome. I think their number might be wrong, but the number is somewhere in the 20's.

Anyway, that's not an obscure quote. It looks like a reference to the eastern Catholic churches in communion with the western (Roman) Catholic church. It would appear that they're looking to come into the universal Catholic church as a separate "sui iuris" church in much the same way that we already have 20+ sui iuris eastern Catholic churches. I know that some Anglicans have been discussing the possibility of becoming a sui iuris Catholic church.

Pope Benedict is deadly serious about his vision on ecumenism and I wouldn't be at all surprised if this comes about.

Something to pray for.


18 posted on 09/27/2005 6:30:30 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
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