Anglo-Catholics warn of defection plans

Leading Anglo-Catholic clergy have warned that the failure to provide concessions over a plan to ordain women bishops would force many of them to move to the Catholic Church.

Cardinal Newman’s influence in Sri Lanka

(A few) Sundays ago (February. 21), a kindly retired priest next to me at church gently reminded me that it is Cardinal John Newman Day, in celebration of Newman’s birth in 1801. (Professor S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole, Sri Lanka Guardian)

Canadian Anglicans line up to join Catholic Church

The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada has taken up the Vatican’s offer to create personal ordinariates enabling disillusioned Anglicans to return to Rome.

Australian Trad Anglicans vote to become Catholic

Forward in Faith Australia, part of an Anglo-Catholic group that also has members in Britain and America, has voted to leave the Anglican Church. It is setting up a working group, guided by Melbourne Auxiliary Bishop Peter Elliot, on how best to move to Catholicism.

Humpty Dumpty in the Vatican

In “Through the Looking Glass,” Lewis Carroll’s sequel to “Alice in Wonderland,” Alice meets Humpty Dumpty. (Maryknoll Father William Grimm, UCA News)
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can [...]

Archbishop and Pope “consolidate” relationship

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and the Pope have agreed to “consolidate” the relationship between their two churches.
In a meeting last week, both leaders affirmed the common goals shared by the Anglican and Catholic Churches and did not appear to have been hampered by the Church’s recent act to welcome dissenting Anglicans into [...]

Marriage drives Korean priests to Anglican church

The Catholic Church in Korea has lost four priests to the Anglicans in recent years, with marriage cited as the most important reason.
“They want to marry and at the same time serve as pastors,” Anglican Fr Peter Lee Kyong-nae, himself a former Catholic seminarian, told UCA News. Two more Catholic priests are currently preparing to [...]

Celibacy a must for single converting Anglican priests

CDF Prefect Cardinal William Levada has issued a statement seeking to quash speculation that the forthcoming apostolic constitution for converting Anglican communities has been delayed because of disagreements in the Vatican over celibacy requirements for converting priests.
“There has been widespread speculation, based on supposedly knowledgeable remarks by an Italian correspondent Andrea Tornielli that the delay [...]

Pope creates path to welcome Anglicans

A video from Rome Reports explaining the newly-created system to receive Anglican parishes, or even entire Anglican dioceses, into the Catholic Church.
The new ecclesiastical structures to absorb Anglicans will allow them to retain their distinctive spiritual practices, including the ordination of married former Anglican clergy as Catholic priests, a report from the National Catholic Reporter [...]

Britain no longer Christian: Anglican bishop

British Anglican Bishop Paul Richardson says that declining church attendance and the rise in multiculturalism mean that “Christian Britain is dead”.