The Vatican announced today that it will create a structure that will allow large groups of Anglicans to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church, providing "a reasonable and even necessary response to a world-wide phenomenon," said Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Catholic News Agency reports:
"The new canonical structure will allow former Anglicans to enter into full communion with the Church while 'preserving elements of distinctive Anglican spiritual patrimony,' said Cardinal Levada. He added that it will allow married former Anglican clergy to be ordained however, in common with Catholic and Orthodox Churches, married clergy will not be allowed to be ordained bishops."The Traditional Anglican Communion, a breakaway group that has publicly made known its wishes to unite with Rome, claims to have some 400,000 members. Although the move to open the door to Anglicans seems aimed at the TAC movement, it is not limited to the group.
Click HERE to read the full statement from the CDF. Click HERE to read the CNS story on the announcement. Click HERE to read the L.A. Times story. Stay tuned for more news on this.
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The Church will receive this group, more or less intact, and allow some of their liturgical traditions (and at least the current married priests) to continue. There is a division among current Catholics about liturgy. This includes what songs are proper, which direction the priest should face, holding hands during the Our Father, etc. This might add to that division.
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