Posted on 10/20/2009 2:50:22 AM PDT by tgdunbar
from Damian Thompson:
The Vatican has announced that Pope Benedict is setting up special provision for Anglicans, including married clergy, who want to convert to Rome together, preserving aspects of Anglican liturgy. They will be given their own pastoral supervision, according to this press release from the Vatican:“In this Apostolic Constitution the Holy Father has introduced a canonical structure that provides for such corporate reunion by establishing Personal Ordinariates which will allow former Anglicans to enter full communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of the distinctive Anglican spiritual and liturgical patrimony.”
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
Welcome home, brother and sister Anglicans!
The Vatican has a Mergers & Aquisitions department. Who knew!
Welcome my friends and may God bless this movement!
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