~~PING!
This is so rich on so many levels. The Anglicans’ church leaves them, the Roman Catholic church says come home, there is a place for you here; you believe what we believe. And the Anglican archbishop embraces the whole idea so as to avoid “schism.” Guess what. It’s already happened. And it was your doing. I am happy for the Anglicans.
It's for former Anglicans. This was done to accommodate the Tradtiional Anglican Communion. It's being presented in broader terms so that others still in the "official" Anglican Communion have a path as well.
Those who think things in the "official" Anglican Communion are just fine will have no need of this option.
“The two questions I would want to ask are ‘why this and why now,”’ he told The Associated Press. “Why the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has decided to embrace that particular method remains unclear to me.”
Because man is created as a communal being.
One is only a true man if he loves other persons, especially God.
It seems that the Church has made the prudential decision that an existing “communio” that finds itself to be Catholic in essence - though not formally in name - will be best served by keeping that communio intact and allowing that already present Catholic essence to flourish openly as it fully and formally incorporates into the large communion of the Church led by the successor of Peter.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Does this mean we will get some people who have good church music?
(Another mass with Marty’s music at beginning and end. Ugh. My personal cross to bear, I guess.)
Welcome home, brother and sister Anglicans!
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