Group with three Ottawa-area parishes is first in country to approach Vatican

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A group with three churches in the Ottawa area has taken up the Vatican's offer of a special legal structure enabling disillusioned Anglicans to return to Rome.

The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada -- a denomination already closely aligned with Catholic precepts -- is the first in Canada to approach the Vatican like this.

In November, the Holy See shocked the world by announcing it would allow Anglicans to become Catholic, yet keep their own liturgy, prayer books, and married clergy. It would form a separate set of rules for the group, much as it has done with Eastern Rite Catholics.

Recently, the Vatican's chief of doctrine, William Cardinal Levada, said in a speech in Kingston that "visible union with the Catholic Church does not mean absorption to the greater whole, as a teaspoon of sugar would be lost in a gallon of coffee."

Instead, he compared it to an orchestra with "... all instruments tuned to the piano ... all playing same notes of doctrinal clarity ... the beautiful and inviting sound of the word of God."

Last week, Peter Wilkinson, bishop of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada, wrote to the Vatican asking that the structure be established here, with an interim council to run it. The council would likely choose its first leader, or "ordinary" who would act as bishop for Anglicans within the Canadian Catholic church.

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