Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, former Bishop of Rochester, responds to the announcement of the new Apostolic Constitution.
I welcome the Roman Catholic Church’s generosity of spirit and its recognition of what Pope Paul VI called the ”˜legitimate prestige and patrimony’ of the Anglican Communion.
I am unclear, however, as to whether there is agreement about the faith ”˜once for all delivered to the saints’ on which such an offer must be based.
For orthodox Anglicans, the supreme authority of the Word of God is, naturally, a basic requirement for any such agreement to be reached.
No.