[OLDCATH-L] Anglican leader urges 'convergence' with Catholics

[Sam'l B]

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On 11/23/2009 04:03 PM, Andre Queen, Sr wrote:
> Blessings from Rome!
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> As I have been in Rome this past week and, as we speak, let me see what the feel here is on the meeting.
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> Most Rev. Andre J. W. Queen, SCR
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> Anglican leader urges 'convergence' with Catholics
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> (AFP) - 4 hours ago  12pm November 20, 2009
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> ROME - Church of England leader Rowan Williams, Archbishop of
> Canterbury, said Thursday the "glass is half-full" in relations with
> the Catholic Church despite strains over a Vatican overture to
> disaffected Anglicans.
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> Speaking ahead of a meeting Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI, who last
> month approved a new structure for allowing groups of Anglicans into
> the Catholic fold, Williams said the two churches had "unfinished
> business" to resolve, but that "the ecumenical glass is genuinely
> half-full."
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> "The strong convergence... about what the Church of God really is, is
> very striking," he said in a lecture at Rome's Gregorian University,
> questioning "whether this unfinished business is as fundamentally
> church-dividing as our Roman Catholic friends generally assume and
> maintain."
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> While appearing conciliatory, Williams also laid down a "challenge to
> recent Roman Catholic thinking" on women priests, the issue behind
> many Anglicans' wish to leave the Church of England in preference for
> Catholicism.
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> The archbishop, noting the "sharpness of division" among Anglicans on
> the question of the ordination of women, said they had managed to
> "maintain a degree of undoubtedly impaired communion among themselves"
> by taking a broader view.
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> So he asked: "Is there a way of recognising that somehow the corporate
> exercise of a Catholic and evangelical ministry remains intact even
> when there is dispute about the standing of female individuals?"
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> The Vatican unveiled the new framework for the conversions on November
> 9 in what was described by The Times of London as "potentially the
> most explosive development in Anglican-Catholic relations since the
> Reformation."
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> The move, which could attract hundreds of Anglicans from around the
> world who oppose women and openly gay clergy, was a response to what
> the Vatican called "repeated and insistent" petitions.
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> The meeting between the pope and Williams, who is in Rome to help
> celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Johannes Willebrands
> -- a Dutch cardinal who was a pioneer in Catholic ecumenism -- was
> scheduled long before the controversy.
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