Irish Anglican bishop's wife joins Catholic Church

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Don’t you just love conversions to the faith?

Anita Henderson was received into the Catholic Church by Bishop John Fleming of Killala. Her husband, Bishop Richard Henderson of the Church of Ireland, attended the ceremony.
From Catholic World News.
 
But how did her husband know???

This reminds me of something William F. Buckley once said. I’m paraphrasing.

“The Anglican Church is so eclectic that no one, from the Pope to Mao Tse Tung can say with any degree of certainty that he is NOT an Anglican.”
 
Here’s a link to the article in todays ‘Irish Independent’ Newspaper - the conversion of the bishop’s wife is an unprecedented event in Irish church history… She has my best wishes, this move is quite encouraging for me, seeing the wife of an Anglican bishop taking such a step, especially as the Catholic Church in Ireland is not in great shape at the moment. Her father is a Protestant minister too, I believe. Maybe she’ll convince her husband to convert!!

independent.ie/national-news/anglican-bishops-wife-in-shock-conversion-to-rome-1197795.html
 
IMO, the Bishop handled this exremely well -
The two bishops, Catholic and Anglican, issued a joint statement after the ceremony, indicating that Anita Henderson’s religious affiliation was a matter of private conscience that “deserves the respect of us all.”
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“This is a time of unprecedented hospitality, friendship, and collaboration between our local churches,” the joint statement continued. The bishop said that ecumenical advances have helped make believers “increasingly aware of how much we have in common, and yet how distinctive the different traditions remain; how much in their variety they are especially suited to some, but not to others.”
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His statement seems to leave room for more conversions… such as his own!👍
 
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