Pope backing prelature for Anglicans entering Catholic Church?

[rpp]

This is interesting. Still, just a rumor, though.

Pope Benedict XVI favors the creation of a personal prelature to accommodate the members of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) who wish to enter the Catholic Church, according to an English Catholic newspaper. The Catholic Herald quoted a “senior figure in the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church of England” in saying that the Pope hopes to find a proper canonical solution to allow the prompt entry of the Anglican group. The Herald also quotes an unnamed Vatican official: “The Pope is really behind it. The Pontifical Council for Christian Unity is against it, but if the Holy Father wants this to happen, it will.” The report runs directly counter to stories that circulated last week, in which Vatican officials said that plans for an Anglican prelature were not under consideration.

Full story here with links to related articles.

As always, I ask that we all continue to pray for Christian unity.

 

[Gerry_Hunter]

I don’t put much stock in the particulars of the report.

A “senior figure in the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church of England” is not an authoritative source on the deliberations of the Pope and the Curia. And the reference to the supposed disagreement between the Holy Father and the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity smacks of journalistic mischief.

When there’s something to be said, the Curia will say it, at the direction of the Holy Father. Meanwhile, I question the ethics and wisdom of speculating on this matter, as if it were some kind of political negotiation.

Blessings,

Gerry

 

[piperspop]

First, there are already two other threads on this topic.

Secondly, the Church of England has no relationship whatsoever with the Traditional Anglican Communion, a fact which all of us in the TAC celebrate!