From Indiana-
The recent decision of the Vatican to establish a special diocese in the United States for Episcopal converts to Catholicism has re-opened discussion on several old points of contention.
Among them is the decisions of the Catholic Church to allow married Anglican and Episcopal priests to be ordained on an individual basis in 1980, and the more recent allowance for entire Episcopal parishes to convert en masse in 2009.
The decisions to allow married Anglican and Episcopal priests to convert along with their parishes and subsequently be re-ordained as Catholic priests are not attempts to “steal sheep,” according to the Catholic Church.
Rather, they are a munificent response to a growing sentiment in the Anglo-Catholic portion of the Episcopal community that their denomination is headed in the wrong direction — that is, in the liberal Episcopal acceptance of female and openly gay priests and recognition of gay marriage.
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