[Siobhan]

Father Max Thurian converted to the Roman Catholic Faith and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood. The monastery at Taize is not protestant per se. It is a mixed community of protestants, Anglicans, and Roman Catholics.

Canon Ronald Jasper had some interesting things to say regarding the Observers at Vatican II.

[ultima ratio]

Thanks very much for this text, I appreciate it. I think one final thing should be said. The whole point of the Novus Ordo was to bring Catholics and Protestants together. Paul VI said this expressly. Therefore their presence at these sessions was a little more than a peripheral matter. Their response had to be a key factor in the final outcome.

[Salvation]

Thanks for that link. It answered the question I asked earlier about who made the decisions.