Yet, many Anglicans will not be embracing the offer.
“The Episcopal Church will be only mildly impacted,” said Father Douglas Grandon, a former Anglican pastor who was ordained a Catholic priest in May 2008 and serves as associate pastor at Sacred Heart in Moline, Ill. “Most of those clergy and bishops have already left who had any Catholic sense. In the U.S., the primary ones who will consider this would be the Anglo-Catholics.”
Some Episcopal pastors and parishes upset with the direction of the national Episcopal Church (it has elected two bishops who are openly homosexual and has given the nod to blessing same-sex unions) have placed themselves under the leadership of more conservative bishops in the U.S., Africa or the Americas. For example, approximately 20 Episcopal parishes in California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas and Canada have left the Episcopal Church to join the Southern Cone of the Americas, an Anglican province in South America.
For those seeking to accept the Vatican’s offer, examples do exist of communities that have already done something similar. Since the implementation of the Pastoral Provision in 1980 ”” which allowed for the Catholic ordination of married Episcopal priests and authorized the establishment of personal Catholic parishes that retained certain Anglican liturgical elements ”” several Anglican-use communities have been created in the United States.
The article stated: [blockquote]Most of those clergy and bishops have already left who had any Catholic sense.[/blockquote]
How about Common sense? How about the “still stuck in”?
I think there will be something of a move in the broader Communion, but doubt that there will be much from TEO. Let’s be frank here. Anyone who has not already left is unlikely to ever do so. If what has already transpired could not move someone to the exits than nothing can.
I think it will be surprising if *any* Anglicans embrace the Pope’s offer, apart from those in the continuum who have been petitioning to join the RC church for decades and do not regard themselves as part of the Anglican Communion anyway.