Sunday, January 23, 2011

Ordinariate Watch: Anglican Ordinariate Is "Prophetic Gesture"


This was the claim of Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican's press office, who made this remark on the most recent episode of the weekly Vatican Television program "Octava Dies"....

"Thus there occurred," the Vatican spokesman said, "the decisive step in the erection of the first 'ordinariate' spoken of in a November 2009 document of Benedict XVI --'Anglicanorum coetibus' -- for the Anglican pastors and faithful who desire to enter into the Catholic Church not as individuals but as groups."

"Meeting the English bishops at the end of his visit," the Jesuit recalled, "Benedict XVI spoke to them of 'a prophetic gesture that can contribute positively to the developing relations between Anglicans and Catholics. It helps us to set our sights on the ultimate goal of all ecumenical activity: the restoration of full ecclesial communion.'"

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