Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Anglican Catholic Church Chief Says No to Rome's Offer

Anglican Catholic Church Chief Says No to Rome's Offer
Anglicanorum Coetibus attracts Anglicans desperate to get out of Anglican Communion

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
April 4, 2011

The Metropolitan of the Anglican Catholic Church, (ACC) the Most Rev. Mark Haverland, says his Continuing Anglican body is not the slightest bit interested in taking the Pope up on his offer of an Ordinariate as a safe harbor from the tribulations facing world Anglicanism.

Writing in The Trinitarian the official gazette of the ACC, Haverland said the pope's terms, which include a total rejection by Rome of the validity of Anglican Episcopal acts and, therefore, also require re-confirmations and re-ordinations of all Anglicans, was of "no significant interest". While there may be some sympathy within the ACC forAnglicanorum Coetibus which has gone unvoiced, his experience has shown that there is little interest by his priests and people in the Pope's offer.

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