WSJ: Vatican in Bold Bid to Attract Anglicans

The Vatican said it will make it far easier for disgruntled Anglicans to convert to Catholicism, in one of Rome’s most sweeping gestures to a Protestant church since the Reformation.

A newly created set of canon laws, known as an “Apostolic Constitution,” will clear the way for entire congregations of Anglican faithful to join the Catholic Church. That represents a potentially serious threat to the already fragile world-wide communion of national Anglican churches, which has about 77 million members globally.

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One comment on “WSJ: Vatican in Bold Bid to Attract Anglicans

  1. Dan Crawford says:

    Today’s question: what will the Vatican’s action to for gruntled Anglicans?