We here in Rome have received many questions about the Vatican announcement on October 20 about the setting up of “Personal Ordinariates” for former Anglicans wishing to enter into full communion now with the Roman Catholic Church. Here are some answers to those questions posed by many.
Rowan Williams has separated out ecclesiastical rights from human rights, and has become complicit in the actions of African prelates and civil authorities against gay people; he has turned Church life into a form of isolated ecclesiastical bureaucracy; he has made a joke of critical theology and Biblical study when it comes to Church authority, and now for all this overturning of Anglican sensibilities for the greater goal he has been humiliated by Rome.
Alberto Cutié who has recently joined the Episcopal Church after a career as a Roman Catholic priest writes his response to the actions of the
From the Very Rev. Sam Candler, dean of St. Philip’s Cathedral in Atlanta writing at Good Faith and the Common Good
Over the weekend Roman Catholics and Episcopalians, led by former Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold joined in a shared Solemn Evensong dedicated to Mary, the Mother of God.
Bishop Christopher Epting, the Chief Ecumenical Officer of the Episcopal Church will retire at the end of 2009. Dr. Thomas Ferguson, his associate officer will serve as interim until a new person is appointed by the Presiding Bishop.
“The Catholic bishops do not allow us to invite non-Catholic Christians to receive Eucharist. We ask that you respect the discipline of the Roman Catholic Church and join us in prayer for the unity of all Christians, for whom our Lord Jesus prayed on the night before he died.”
The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity “supports the archbishop in his desire to strengthen these bonds of communion, and to articulate more fully the relationship between the local and the universal within the church.”