http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/some-anglicans-apply-to-join-the-catholic-church/2011/12/30/gIQAQdHRTP_story.html
“It’s the largest reunification effort in 500 years,” said Susan Gibbs, a spokeswoman for the new body, called an ordinariate.The possibility of dozens of married Catholic priests could provide fodder for Catholics who want the Vatican to open up on the issue of priestly celibacy. There are about 40,000 Catholic priests in the United States.Gibbs declined to say which priests and parishes have expressed interest. But congregants at St. Luke’s, and others who call themselves Anglo-Catholics, tend to be theological and social conservatives who say they like the clear, single authority of a pope. However, they also want to hold onto aspects of Anglicanism, including retaining more authority in governing and certain music and rituals, such as kneeling for Communion..."
Bridget Mary's Reflection:
In this historic structural change, the Vatican is expanding a married Catholic priesthood to include Anglcian priests in the United States as well as in England. They did so without dialogue with the Episcopal Church, a slap in the face to a Sister- Church.
It is time that the Vatican makes celibacy optional for priestly ministry. The best we can hope is that this is a first step in that direction.
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The Episcopal church is not a "sister church." They are a schismatic sect. The real slap in the face was the Anglican separation from Rome in the first place.
ReplyDeleteAnglican clergy seeking ordination will need a criminal background check, psychological evaluation and vote of support from the local Catholic bishop. We wouldn't want them to taint the pool.
ReplyDeleteAnd a married Anglican priest can be ordained a Catholic priest, but not a bishop. That way he won't be able to ordain his wife.
There are no married bishops, even in the Eastern rites. This is not just an Anglican thing.
ReplyDeletePaul 1 Cor. 9:5
ReplyDeleteDo we not have the right to take along a Christian wife, as do the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Revisionists claiming that Desmond Tutu is an Anglican Bishop, that he is married to his wife Lea Tutu, and that Trevor Thamsanqa Tutu, Theresa Thandeka Tutu, Naomi Nontombi Tutu and Mpho Andrea Tutu are their children, shall be excommunicated latae sententiae.
ReplyDeleteThe Archbishop of Canterbury? Married? To his wife Jane? With a daughter, Rhiannon, and a son, Pip?
ReplyDeleteJust another pack of lies, I tell you.