VATICAN CITY — In an extraordinary bid to lure traditionalist Anglicans en masse, the Vatican said Tuesday that it would make it easier for Anglicans uncomfortable with their church’s acceptance of female priests and openly gay bishops to join the Roman Catholic Church while retaining many of their traditions.
Anglicans would be able “to enter full communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of the distinctive Anglican spiritual and liturgical patrimony,” Cardinal William J. Levada, the prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said at a news conference here.
more on this in the link below
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/world/europe/21pope.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=vatican%20bidding%20to%20get%20anglicans&st=cse
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I got a shock when I see this news in the Straits Times a few days ago. I wonder what is our church's response to this.
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