Posted by Leo
on 10/23/2009, 6:37 am, in reply to "Vatican in Bold Bid to Attract Anglicans"
A little more background and 'color' are available here, including the following:
In 1993 the Catholic bishops of England and Wales asked the Vatican not to implement special structures for former Anglicans in their country, saying that the formation of Anglican-identity Catholic parishes would only further fracture the Christian community and would make the eventual unity of the Catholic Church and Anglican Communion more difficult.
Participants in the Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue also have expressed concern in the past that the movement of Catholics to the Anglican Communion is making the Anglican Communion more liberal, while the movement of Anglicans to the Catholic Church is making the Catholic community more conservative.*
What I don't get is how "the new Ordinariate(s) will function within dioceses" as media stories keep saying. In the Latin Church an ordinariate IS essentially a diocese; the best-known are different nations' Military Ordinariates (ie, one apiece), trans-diocesan 'dioceses' for pastoral care of armed forces personnel -- "overlapping jurisdictions" if you will. This isn't the same as "personal prelatures" like Opus Dei, which are closer in 'feel' to Religious Orders ISTM. Whatever.
--Leo
(*--IOW, "liberal" Latins go Anglican for married clergy, remarriage after divorce while the ex-spouse is still alive and without an annulment, lay involvement in helping lead the Church, approval of artificial contraception, anti-"conservatism" ala the post-Vatican II "retrenchment" led by John Paul II and then-Cardinal Ratzinger since 1980, women priests [and in the U.S., bishops also], openness to homosexuality, etc etc etc. Meanwhile Anglicans go Catholic for and against these very things, if you know what I mean! As well as, of course, the normal Catholic/Latin things: doctrine, papacy, "tradition," "sacraments," Mary, etc.)
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