Ready to swim the Tiber? From the London Telegraph-The Pope is preparing to offer the Traditional Anglican Communion, a group of half a million dissident Anglicans, its own personal prelature by Rome, according to reports this morning.
"History may be in the making", reports The Record. "It appears Rome is on the brink of welcoming close to half a million members of the Traditional Anglican Communion into membership of the Roman Catholic Church. Such a move would be the most historic development in Anglican-Catholic relations in the last 500 years. But it may also be a prelude to a much greater influx of Anglicans waiting on the sidelines, pushed too far by the controversy surrounding the consecration of practising homosexual bishops, women clergy and a host of other issues."
Here is Anthony Barich's report in full. My guess is that, if this happens, Anglo-Catholics in the C of E will move to Rome in unprecedented numbers under a similar arrangement. More on this later. Also, see American Catholic, which broke the story on the web.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/01/29/traditional_anglicans_to_be_offered_personal_prelature_by_pope
2 comments:
if this happens, Anglo-Catholics in the C of E will move to Rome in unprecedented numbers under a similar arrangement.
Not w/ the property of the CofE, will they.
Rome has always been there, and they haven't swam. Will having an "Anglican Use Prayer Book" be enough now? I'm sure it will, for some . . . but I don't know about "unprecedented numbers."
I wonder how many of the laity would be comfortable under Rome. Most of this schismatic activity seems to be entirely clergy driven. I wonder if those fellows have any real idea of what they wouldn't be getting themselves into. Grass and fence?
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