Historic Moves Afoot For Traditional Anglicans

[cappie]

History may be in the making. It appears Rome is on the brink of welcoming close to half a million members of the Traditional Anglican Communion into membership of the Roman Catholic Church, Such a move would be the most historic development in Anglican-Catholic relations in the last 500 years. But it may also be a prelude to a much greater influx of Anglicans waiting on the sidelines.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has decided to recommend the Traditional Anglican Communion be accorded a personal prelature akin to Opus Dei, if talks between the TAC and the Vatican aimed at unity succeed, it is understood.

An announcement could be made soon after Easter this year. It is understood that Pope Benedict XVI, who has taken a personal interest in the matter, has linked the issue to the year of St Paul, the greatest missionary in the history of the Church.

The Basilica of St Paul outside the Walls could feature prominently in such an announcement for its traditional and historical links to Anglicanism. Prior to the English Reformation it was the official Church of the Knights of the Garter.

The TAC's Primate, Adelaide based Archbishop John Hepworth, told The Record he has also informed the Holy See he wants to bring all the TAC's bishops to Rome for the beatification of Cardinal Henry Newman, also an Anglican convert to the Catholic Church, as a celebration of Anglican-Catholic unity. - Anthony Barich, The Record (click below for full article)

[url="http://www.therecord.com.au/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=757&Itemid=1"]http://www.therecord.com.au/site/index.php...57&Itemid=1[/url]

[CatherineM]

Maybe instead of a straight integration it would work more like they were a separate rite like the Byzantines? That sounds like a great way to handle it. Cardinal Newman has got to be working hard for this.

[MithLuin]

That would be [i]awesome[/i] if it happens, and I agree that there are probably other Anglicans who would want to 'wait and see' how these were treated.

This week of Christian Unity sure has been fruitful!

[fides quarens intellectum]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1764884' date='Jan 28 2009, 04:55 PM']Maybe instead of a straight integration it would work more like they were a separate rite like the Byzantines? That sounds like a great way to handle it. Cardinal Newman has got to be working hard for this.[/quote]

As to the idea of a separate rite, the Byzantines and other Eastern rites are traditions separate from the Latin one, whereas the Anglicans only broke off from the Latin Rite. Why should those coming back in have their own rite? i'm curious.

[CatherineM]

[quote name='fides quarens intellectum' post='1764897' date='Jan 28 2009, 05:27 PM']

As to the idea of a separate rite, the Byzantines and other Eastern rites are traditions separate from the Latin one, whereas the Anglicans only broke off from the Latin Rite. Why should those coming back in have their own rite? i'm curious. [/quote]

I guess I was thinking that they might be more open if they knew they could have some autonomy as to liturgy. A way of saving face so to speak. I mean the other 8 rites are close enough that some people might think they could just all be squeezed into a single Eastern rite (I don't), but they were allowed to be kind of autonomous within Vatican authority. I thought that if they would allow the Anglicans their own rite, they could continue to have married priests, and a few other things that aren't contrary to coming back into communion.

[philothea]

Err, I thought there already was an Anglican rite just for this kind of thing?

In any case, WOOHOO!

[Innocent]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1764884' date='Jan 29 2009, 05:25 AM']Cardinal Newman has got to be working hard for this.[/quote]

He certainly can't be alone..

St. Thomas More, St. Bishop Fisher, (and many more who lived at that time and after, like St. Edmund Campion)..

And there are also Ronald Knox, Robert Hugh Benson, and of course, Chesterton! Perhaps Evelyn Waugh, too.

I'd like to think that C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams are working hard, too. And perhaps Tolkien, too.

And just maybe Belloc, too.

[cmotherofpirl]

Is this who we are talking about:
[url="http://www.anglicaneducationcentre.net/"]http://www.anglicaneducationcentre.net/[/url]

and will they be Anglican use:

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Use"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Use[/url]

[Nihil Obstat]

That would be so cool.
I don't have trouble imagining that something like this could 'open the floodgates' for other High Anglicans who aren't as liberal as some of their counterparts.

[Giolla]

you know who has two thumbs and is excited. THIS GUY!

[MithLuin]

This is who we are talking about: [url="http://acahomeorg0.web701.discountasp.net/tac/tac_member_churches.aspx"]Traditional Anglican Communion[/url]

[Nihil Obstat]

I'm even more excited about this than the possibility of full communion with SSPX. If I'm going to be perfectly honest.

[Vincent Vega]

There's a small, traditional anglican church really close to my house, and I want them to come back to Rome, cause I really wanna see the inside, but I refuse to go in until they're reunited.
I wonder how long I'll need to wait.

[philothea]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1765009' date='Jan 28 2009, 08:48 PM']I'm even more excited about this than the possibility of full communion with SSPX. If I'm going to be perfectly honest.[/quote]
Likewise.

[Church Punk]

Deo Gratias!!!!

First the TLM, Then SSPX now the Anglicans. This Pope has done more for Christian unity of orthodox believers than anyone else in recent history!

Benedict the Great!

B16 - So Fresh, So Clean!