Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Ex-Anglicans: The Wrong Kind of Catholics?

http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/08/exanglicans-the-wrong-kind-of.html

[beliefnet] 13 Aug 2008--Do ex-Anglicans make the wrong kind of Catholics? You know, the kind who really believe the Catechism? I ask for two reasons. One, the Dallas Morning News reports today that priests of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth have been inquiring of the city's Roman Catholic bishop about their diocese coming over to Rome en masse, so to speak. No report on how the RC bishop, Kevin Vann, responded to the Episcopal priests' petition, though the Catholic diocese did confirm that the meeting took place.

Here, from the blog of Katie Sherrod (a liberal north Texas Episcopalian), are more details, including a text of the proposal itself. That proposal included this information:

There are currently 60 active clergy [in the FW Episcopal diocese].

We believe 9 will opt to stay in The Episcopal Church.

51 will remain in a temporarily realigned diocese with the Southern Cone.

5 are not interested at this time in working for full communion [with Rome].

46 are truly interested. If we add our seminarians currently on the priesthood track and our retired clergy the number becomes 59.

Our best guess is that approximately 59 clergy are willing to pursue an active plan to bring the Diocese of Fort Worth or a significant portion of it into full communion with the Holy See, if this be God's will.

Related articles:
http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3803
The rite stuff in Fort Worth? - Get Religion
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=28870&cb300=vocations
An Interview with a Former Anglican - Catholic Online

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