Major Anglican Group Prepares for Full Communion with Rome

[Friar_David_O.Carm]

Hildebrand:

As much as I would like to see it, I don’t think the Traditional Anglicans believe in purgatory, papal infallibility, and several other doctrines/dogmas (Immaculate Conception & Assumption, etc). In the Catholic Church priests cannot marry. The Catholic Church allows married men to become priests in some cases, but can never allow priests to marry.

They would be forced to assent to all Catholic teachings.

I have a question about the Anglican Church. Can their priests marry after they become priests?

The Catholic Church does ordain married men to the priesthood but after ordination a man can not marry.

Rome should not accept them if the reasons for joining are the problems of the Anglican Church. Only when they accept the Catholic Church as the true Church (along with all of its teachings), should they be accepted. No use making them a Latin Anglican Rite, and then have them splitting from the Catholic Church once they disagree with the Church.

This is one of the many arguments against the creation of an Anglican Catholic Church. There is already a Western Church and there is an Anglican Use Liturgy. Why can they not join the Roman Church and use that rite?

 

[Friar_David_O.Carm]

BillyT92679:

I think this group does accept those dogmatic points. The married episcopacy issue is tough, no Apostolic Church East or West has had that since ancient times. And yes, once ordained, a Priest cannot marry.

Actually they do not accept the Pope. Otherwise they would already be in communion.

Also, while they may pay lip service to the other dogmas, I believe that belief is not required by the members of its Church.

 

[Nekic]

ByzCath:

Actually they do not accept the Pope. Otherwise they would already be in communion.

Also, while they may pay lip service to the other dogmas, I believe that belief is not required by the members of its Church.

We must also remember that this group of Anglos has actually split from the Communion.
Thus, they can believe whatever they want, without interference from the rest of the Anglican Communion.

So therefore, they can assert their papal fidelity, and ask for his communion.

 

[David_Zampino]

Hildebrand:

As much as I would like to see it, I don’t think the Traditional Anglicans believe in purgatory, papal infallibility, and several other doctrines/dogmas (Immaculate Conception & Assumption, etc). In the Catholic Church priests cannot marry. The Catholic Church allows married men to become priests in some cases, but can never allow priests to marry.

I think that you will find that Purgatory, Papal Infallibility, and the Marian Dogmas are not problems amongst most Traditional Anglicans. As a matter of fact, I think that you will find more adherence to authentic Catholic teaching amongst most Traditional Anglicans than among millions of American and Western European Catholics! (Sad, but true!).

With regard to marriage, the state in which one enters ordination would be the state in which one remains, not unlike the Orthodox Church. Nobody is, to my knowledge, talking about marrying after ordination or re-marriage after ordination.

Hildebrand:

Rome should not accept them if the reasons for joining are the problems of the Anglican Church. Only when they accept the Catholic Church as the true Church (along with all of its teachings), should they be accepted. No use making them a Latin Anglican Rite, and then have them splitting from the Catholic Church once they disagree with the Church.

I think that you will find that unity with the Successor of Peter is a primary reason. It is unfair to condemn modern Traditional Anglicans, who have longed for reunion for generations, because of the events of the Reformation.

Blessings,