Romeward Anglicans: A Case of Too Much Politics?
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 8:28 am
Channel: America
Author: Austen Ivereigh
It has been a week of movement in the often arcane world of Anglican traditionalists seeking a home in Rome.
The Australian branch of Forward in Faith — the main association of Anglo-Catholic priests — has become the first group within the Anglican Church to vote to accept the Pope’s ordinariate offer (their 15 February statement is here). FiF Australia, which has 200 members and 16 parishes, will join the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) — which is not in communion with Canterbury, and has already voted to accept the ordinariate proposal — in a working party set up by the Australian Catholic bishops to negotiate terms.
This means that Australia will become, in effect, the test centre for the new ordinariates envisaged by Pope Benedict’s Anglicanorum coetibus.
The full column is here.
The Australian branch of Forward in Faith — the main association of Anglo-Catholic priests — has become the first group within the Anglican Church to vote to accept the Pope’s ordinariate offer (their 15 February statement is here). FiF Australia, which has 200 members and 16 parishes, will join the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) — which is not in communion with Canterbury, and has already voted to accept the ordinariate proposal — in a working party set up by the Australian Catholic bishops to negotiate terms.
This means that Australia will become, in effect, the test centre for the new ordinariates envisaged by Pope Benedict’s Anglicanorum coetibus.
The full column is here.
The web address (url) for this article is: http://covenant-communion.net/index.php/site/articles/romeward_anglicans_a_case_of_too_much_politics/
© 2009 Covenant-Communion, Inc. All rights reserved. For original material from Covenant (such as articles and commentary by Covenant authors) permission to copy and distribute free of charge is granted, provided this notice, the logo, and the web site address are visible on all copies. For permission for use in for-profit publications, please email the Covenant Editor.
