Inside the Vatican’s Robert Moynihan gives thorough and insightful report on this latest move by Pope Benedict XVI.

Another Dramatic Move

An Insider’s Look

Editor: Inside the Vatican’s Robert Moynihan gives thorough and insightful report on this latest move by Pope Benedict XVI. 
Moynihan explains how the event unfolded in Rome, how it looks from the English and Australian fronts. 

Pope Benedict XVI is proposing a special Church structure for those Anglicans who wish to come into full communion with Rome without giving up many of the things they cherish as Anglicans. 

On a cool, sunny, crystal clear day here, at 11 this morning, Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, O.P.. Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, held a press conference to announce this unprecedented Roman initiative after almost 500 years of Anglican-Catholic division. 

In London, at precisely the same hour, a parallel press conference was held by Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the head of the Catholic Church in England, and Archbishop Rowan Williams, the head of the Anglican Church. 

"Rome is reabsorbing us, it's as simple as that," one prominent British journalist told me after the Vatican press conference, when I asked him what he thought this was all about. 

That is too simplistic. 

Rome is hoping to reunite with all those elements of the Anglican Church which still feel a deep connection with Rome and with the Catholic faith -- and is willing to take considerable pains to make those Anglicans feel comfortable when they "come over to Rome."

That is what is happening. 

And quite a few people don't want that to happen -- and that explains some of the anomalies associated with today's anouncement... 

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From http://www.calcatholic.com/

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