Interview with the Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion

Catholic Online ^ | 8/18/08 | David W. Virtue

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HEPWORTH: In the paragraph, "we accept the ministry of the Bishop of Rome" and the quote from Vatican II and from John Paul II's encyclical to the separated churches is sufficient indication that we are accepting contemporary statements of Catholic Doctrine and he explicitly made that statement ex cathedra.

Secondly we signed the catechism of the Catholic Church which includes contemporary Catholic teaching on the papacy and we state in the letter we signed that we accepted this as the most perfect statement of Catholic faith in the world at the present time and that it is the faith we "aspire to hold and teach."

VOL: It has been reported that at the gathering of all TAC bishops in England last October at which the TAC formally petitioned Rome for union, that all the bishops signed a copy of the Roman Catholic Catechism on the altar as an expression of their complete acceptance of Roman Catholic dogma and doctrine. Others have reported that this was not the case, that they signed the petition to Rome but not the Catechism. Did the bishops all sign the Catechism, and is there complete acceptance by the TAC of Roman Catholic dogma and doctrine?

HEPWORTH: First. We not only signed the catechism, we also signed the compendium which is the Q & A section of the catechism on the altar and a video of the signing was made for the Holy See and we state in the letter that it is the faith we aspire to hold and teach. We all signed it on that altar in the middle of a mass for Christian unity.

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"The disintegration of catholic faith within Anglicanism opens possibilities for unity that have not been there before."

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Lots of other interesting news at Catholic Online -- Cdl Newman's body is being exhumed and transferred to the Birmingham Oratory (interesting that there was a 19th c. law preventing the transfer of bodies from graves "to church tombs." Clearly aimed at Catholic Saints! (more fallout from the Oxford Movement, of which Cdl Newman of course was a major leader.) And much speculation that canonization is imminent.