AB Wuerl To Guide Bringing Anglican Groups Into Catholic Church

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"*Doctrine Of The Faith Congregation Names Archbishop Wuerl To Guide Bringing Anglican Groups Into Catholic Church In U.S.

WASHINGTON(September 23, 2010)—The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has named Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington to guide the incorporation of Anglican groups into the Catholic Church in the United States.

In this position, he is a delegate of the congregation and heads the U.S. bishops’ ad hoc committee charged with assisting CDF in implementing the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus. Pope Benedict XVI issued the document in November 2009 to provide for establishing personal ordinariates for Anglican groups who seek to enter corporately into full communion with the Catholic Church.

The personal ordinariate is a canonical structure similar to a diocese that covers the area of a bishops’ conference. This permits the incoming Anglicans to be part of the Catholic Church while maintaining aspects of their Anglican heritage and liturgical practice." *

usccb.org/comm/archives/2010/10-166.shtml

To get an idea of how bad things are in the Canadian Anglican church, their archbishops were handling out brochures to commuters in Toronto recently - full vestments.

"*Bishops take message to the streets

Thursday, Sept.23, 2010. The Anglican Archbishop of Toronto went to the streets today to invite people back to church this Sunday.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Pat HewittwTHE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO - Anglican bishops in ecclesiastical vestments invited thousands of bleary-eyed commuters back to church during a campaign at southern Ontario GO train stations yesterday – with at least one being mistaken for a common salesman.
The sight of Archbishop Colin Johnson dressed in his vestments and mitre and handing out cards outside Toronto’s Union Station was first misread as “just another gimmick” by one man.

“There are guys here, like, every single day handing out stuff,” said accountant Greg Hood, 34, who added he thought it was “pretty cool” that Johnson is the Anglican archbishop of Toronto.

After all, it’s not every day you see an archbishop extolling heavenly virtues just metres away from headless mannequins wearing suits and sidewalk hucksters handing out flyers."*

thespec.com/community/article/261232–bishops-take-message-to-the-streets
 
I’m looking forward to seeing where these ordinates are going to be located. Welcome home, brothers and sisters. Is it true some Anglican bishops aren’t “letting their people go”? (That’s strictly a rumor, I cannot cite my source)
 
It will be the Traditional Anglican Communion that swims the Tiber first. There will be opposition within their church but there’s nothing that can stop individuals from converting back to The Church.
 
Great Britain looks to be close establishing their ordinariate as well.

*"Britain could have an Ordinariate by the end of the year, it emerged today.

Sources say that the Rt Rev Keith Newton, the flying Bishop of Richborough and the Rt Rev Andrew Burnham, the flying Bishop of Ebbsfleet, will take up the special canonical structure, which allows groups of Anglicans to come into full Communion with Rome without losing their Anglican identity, before the end of the calendar year.

Groups of Anglicans are already forming across the country in preparation for joining an Ordinariate, according to the blog of the retired Bishop of Richborough, the Rt Rev Edwin Barnes."*

blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100055252/ordinariate-for-anglicans-converting-to-rome-ready-by-the-end-of-the-year/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
 
Sources say that the Rt Rev Keith Newton, the flying Bishop of Richborough and the Rt Rev Andrew Burnham, the flying Bishop of Ebbsfleet…
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I’ve heard of flying nuns, but never flying bishops before. What on earth?
 
Pregustator said:
I’ve heard of flying nuns, but never flying bishops before. What on earth?
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Back when they first had women priests in England, there were some priests and congregations that refused to deal with Bishops who had ordained women. They decided to deal with this by having several traditional bishops to oversee those parishes, who were not attached to any particular geographical area. They were called flying bishops.
 
Bluegoat said:
Back when they first had women priests in England, there were some priests and congregations that refused to deal with Bishops who had ordained women. They decided to deal with this by having several traditional bishops to oversee those parishes, who were not attached to any particular geographical area. They were called flying bishops.
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It would probably take an Englishman to tell us why “flying” and not “roving,” for example. 🙂
 
ProVobis said:
It would probably take an Englishman to tell us why “flying” and not “roving,” for example. 🙂
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Someone told be that it was related to actual flying in an airplane, but I don’t consider that reliable. I personally think it must somehow be related to flying buttresses.
 
I was disappointed that Archbishop Meyers of Newark was not chosen. He has been in charge of the Anglican Use pastoral provision for some years now.
 
Ockham said:
It will be the Traditional Anglican Communion that swims the Tiber first. There will be opposition within their church but there’s nothing that can stop individuals from converting back to The Church.
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Yes, but if individuals come over (as they have always been free to do), it would not be accurate to say that the Traditional Anglican Communion came over, would it? 😉

I expect that nearly all of the TAC bishops will come, between half and two-thirds of their priests, and some of their laity. A good amount will choose to stay behind, and legal questions will arise concerrning property, etc.
 
There is much confusion at this point on which TAC Bishops will be coming into the Ordinariate. Some who took an oath are backing out at this late date. My concern is that this is what they intended from the beginning and did not educate the parishioners about what the Catholic Church actually taught.

There will be this type of problem in the coming months, but hopefully after the Ordinariates are set up, many who just don’t know what the truth is at this point, will decide to join the Ordinariate either with others and a priest or as an individual.

It will take time to know where these parishes will be established. The Anglican Use parishes already Catholic will also be part of the Ordinariate.

No one knows which country will get the first Ordinariate at this time. Rome keeps pretty quiet about serious matters.

Lets just pray that many Anglicans will come into the Church. We also must pray for those who don’t, that they will find another Anglican community in which to join.

Yours in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary

Bernadette
 
What I find encouraging is forty five years after Vatican II and the ecumenically minded Novus Ordo, the first significant group of Protestants to come home are traditional Anglicans. Three years after SP The Church must seem more attractive. Holding onto traditional values and opposing things like gay marriage should bring more authentic Christians back.
 
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