The Catholic Church and the Church of England continue to have good relations after Benedict XVI has paved the way for Anglicans to become Catholics in groups.
This was affirmed by Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster today when he addressed the Pope on behalf of the bishops of England and Wales in Rome for their five-yearly visit.
Archbishop Nichols characterized the Holy Father’s response to Anglicans who have requested communion with Rome as “generous and paternal.”
And he affirmed that the groundwork of “close cooperation and deepening friendship and communion” between Anglicans and Catholics have “helped us to ensure that the various interpretations of and reactions to ‘Anglicanorum Coetibus’ have not seriously disrupted the relationships between our Ecclesial Communions.”
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Zenit: Anglicans and Catholics Still Getting Along
The Catholic Church and the Church of England continue to have good relations after Benedict XVI has paved the way for Anglicans to become Catholics in groups.
This was affirmed by Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster today when he addressed the Pope on behalf of the bishops of England and Wales in Rome for their five-yearly visit.
Archbishop Nichols characterized the Holy Father’s response to Anglicans who have requested communion with Rome as “generous and paternal.”
And he affirmed that the groundwork of “close cooperation and deepening friendship and communion” between Anglicans and Catholics have “helped us to ensure that the various interpretations of and reactions to ‘Anglicanorum Coetibus’ have not seriously disrupted the relationships between our Ecclesial Communions.”
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