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To: stripes1776
Rogert Herft said the Vatican's offer to receive Anglicans would provide a "helpful way for those who wished to join the Roman Catholic Church to do so on similar terms to many Roman Catholics".

Not "similar." Identical is the word. There's only one Church, and I think many Anglicans, even conservative ones, actually will have a problem with this. They're used to a situation where you could pick and choose - some people believed in Transubstantiation and the Real Presence and some people didn't, but it was all groovy - but they're coming into one where either you believe it or...you're not part of the show.

BXVI has done an incredible thing, because Anglicans are actually being confronted individually on what they believe. And this is actually the only way for a group (a "tradition," as the Vatican called them) to come in. Individually after a decision to accept the Faith.

2 posted on 10/25/2009 1:29:40 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius
There's only one Church, and I think many Anglicans, even conservative ones, actually will have a problem with this.

There are Anglo-Catholics who will never accept the idea of Papal Supremacy. Many other Anglo-Catholics would indeed accept this. But what they will not give up is their liturgy in a high registry of English and married priests. It seems that the Vatican will allow them to keep both.

some people believed in Transubstantiation and the Real Presence and some people didn't

Well, I know Roman Catholics who go to communion and don't believe in the Real Presence. There's nobody at the rail (oh, Roman Catholics have gotten rid of the rails, but most Anglican churches still have one and take communion kneeling in two species) asking if you believe in the real presence, in either a Catholic or Anglican church.

BXVI has done an incredible thing, because Anglicans are actually being confronted individually on what they believe.

I would agree that BXVI has done an incredible thing. But this isn't going to change anyone's belief in the Anglican Churches. Those Anglo-Catholics who already accept the RC catechism will probably convert in corporate bodies. There were simply waiting for a guarantee that they can keep their beautiful and reverent liturgy in a high register of English, and allow their priests to be married. There are lots of Eastern rite churches in the Catholic Church. They use their own liturgy and the priests are married. So the Anglicans will get something similar no matter what you call it.

6 posted on 10/25/2009 2:32:52 PM PDT by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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