Daniel_Cheung
10-20-2009, 10:15 PM
Pope Opens Door for Anglicans
http://allafrica.com/stories/200910201200.html
Pope Benedict has allowed married Anglican priests to join the priesthood in the Catholic Church.
Pope Benedict said many groups of the Anglican clergy and faithful had asked to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church.
He said this in a statement released on Tuesday by Cardinal William Joseph Levanda, President of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith in the Vatican....
Vatican Seeks to Lure Disaffected Anglicans
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8868543
The Vatican announced Tuesday it was making it easier for Anglicans to convert to Roman Catholicism -- a surprise move designed to entice traditionalists opposed to women priests, openly gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions.
The decision, reached in secret by a small cadre of Vatican officials, was sure to add to the problems of the 77-million-strong Anglican Communion as it seeks to deal with deep doctrinal divisions that threaten a permanent schism among its faithful....
Joint Statement by The Archbishop of Westminster and The Archbishop of Canterbury
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/2572
Today's announcement of the Apostolic Constitution is a response by Pope Benedict XVI to a number of requests over the past few years to the Holy See from groups of Anglicans who wish to enter into full visible communion with the Roman Catholic Church, and are willing to declare that they share a common Catholic faith and accept the Petrine ministry as willed by Christ for his Church.
Pope Benedict XVI has approved, within the Apostolic Constitution, a canonical structure that provides for Personal Ordinariates, which will allow former Anglicans to enter full communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of distinctive Anglican spiritual patrimony.
The announcement of this Apostolic Constitution brings to an end a period of uncertainty for such groups who have nurtured hopes of new ways of embracing unity with the Catholic Church. It will now be up to those who have made requests to the Holy See to respond to the Apostolic Constitution.
The Apostolic Constitution is further recognition of the substantial overlap in faith, doctrine and spirituality between the Catholic Church and the Anglican tradition. Without the dialogues of the past forty years, this recognition would not have been possible, nor would hopes for full visible unity have been nurtured. In this sense, this Apostolic Constitution is one consequence of ecumenical dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion....
http://allafrica.com/stories/200910201200.html
Pope Benedict has allowed married Anglican priests to join the priesthood in the Catholic Church.
Pope Benedict said many groups of the Anglican clergy and faithful had asked to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church.
He said this in a statement released on Tuesday by Cardinal William Joseph Levanda, President of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith in the Vatican....
Vatican Seeks to Lure Disaffected Anglicans
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8868543
The Vatican announced Tuesday it was making it easier for Anglicans to convert to Roman Catholicism -- a surprise move designed to entice traditionalists opposed to women priests, openly gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions.
The decision, reached in secret by a small cadre of Vatican officials, was sure to add to the problems of the 77-million-strong Anglican Communion as it seeks to deal with deep doctrinal divisions that threaten a permanent schism among its faithful....
Joint Statement by The Archbishop of Westminster and The Archbishop of Canterbury
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/2572
Today's announcement of the Apostolic Constitution is a response by Pope Benedict XVI to a number of requests over the past few years to the Holy See from groups of Anglicans who wish to enter into full visible communion with the Roman Catholic Church, and are willing to declare that they share a common Catholic faith and accept the Petrine ministry as willed by Christ for his Church.
Pope Benedict XVI has approved, within the Apostolic Constitution, a canonical structure that provides for Personal Ordinariates, which will allow former Anglicans to enter full communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of distinctive Anglican spiritual patrimony.
The announcement of this Apostolic Constitution brings to an end a period of uncertainty for such groups who have nurtured hopes of new ways of embracing unity with the Catholic Church. It will now be up to those who have made requests to the Holy See to respond to the Apostolic Constitution.
The Apostolic Constitution is further recognition of the substantial overlap in faith, doctrine and spirituality between the Catholic Church and the Anglican tradition. Without the dialogues of the past forty years, this recognition would not have been possible, nor would hopes for full visible unity have been nurtured. In this sense, this Apostolic Constitution is one consequence of ecumenical dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion....