Roman Catholics and Anglo-Catholics: this is the moment of truth

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The Telegraph:

Roman Catholics and Anglo-Catholics: this is the moment of truth

Be careful what you ask the Pope for, because he might just give it to you. That’s the truth slowly sinking in to attendees at the annual conference of Forward in Faith, held in London today. For ages, many Anglo-Catholics have said they would come over to Rome, but on their own terms (not unreasonable ones, in my opinion). And now the Vatican has said: OK, you can have your own church-within-a-church, only for form’s sake we can’t call it that.

Uh-oh. Suddenly one or two Anglo-Catholics who used to bleat on about how the only obstacle to coming over was the ghastly RC bishops’ conference are having second thoughts, even though that ghastly conference has been written out of the picture. On the other hand, other Anglicans whom you would never expect to be attracted by a Roman offer are taking it seriously, so dramatic are its contents.

You really have to read the comments thread on this article – current events get dropped in favor of Elizabeth I, Jacobites, the Boyne, &c, &c.