Ex-Anglican communities to become Catholic, Rome confirms
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Damian Thompson
The Catholic Church will expand its provision of "Anglican Use" parishes in the United States in order to allow whole communities of traditionalist Anglicans into the Roman fold, a senior Catholic archbishop has announced.
The Most Rev John J Myers, Archbishop of Newark and Ecclesiastical Delegate for the Pastoral Provision, told a conference of ex-Anglicans on Friday that "we are working on expanding the mandate of the Pastoral Provision [of Catholic parishes using Anglican-inspired services] to include those clergy and faithful of 'continuing Anglican communities'. the rest
posted by Pat Dague @ 9:47 AM
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Archbishop Myers was most likely talking about "the continuum" movement in U.S. "Continuing anglicans" are those who separated themselves from Catnerbury after the ordinatins of women as priests.
If the Pastoral Provision is going to be expanded to them, it means that Rome is decided to speak with different anglican voices (and not only with Canterbury). This would be a huge step. But there's a long way to go yet.
Let's keep praying.
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