Anglicans joining Catholic Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

martinnew

Great news to see more religious joining the catholic Ordinariate.

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2012/12/12/eleven-anglican-sisters-to-be-received-into-the-catholic-church/

hinault

Why are some Anglican clergy becoming Roman Catholic clergy?

homer911

hinault wrote: »

Why are some Anglican clergy becoming Roman Catholic clergy?

In general?

What I've learnt about the Anglican church over recent months is that its an incredibly broad church, with very many flavours, some extremely close to the Roman Catholic tradition - indeed when I saw the recent BBC series on trainees in the Church in Wales, if it hadnt been for the women priests, I would have considered it Roman Catholic.

To me its a bit of a Yugoslavia - a miracle that it has stayed (largely) intact for so long.

The church is also splitting itself apart apart at the moment over (sorry to mention it again) the whole gay marriage issue.

The Anglican church as we know it today will be very different in probably no more than 10 years time

What you tend to find is that its rarely priests that convert on their own, its entire congregations

hinault

homer911 wrote: »

In general?

What I've learnt about the Anglican church over recent months is that its an incredibly broad church, with very many flavours, some extremely close to the Roman Catholic tradition - indeed when I saw the recent BBC series on trainees in the Church in Wales, if it hadnt been for the women priests, I would have considered it Roman Catholic.

To me its a bit of a Yugoslavia - a miracle that it has stayed (largely) intact for so long.

The church is also splitting itself apart apart at the moment over (sorry to mention it again) the whole gay marriage issue.

The Anglican church as we know it today will be very different in probably no more than 10 years time

What you tend to find is that its rarely priests that convert on their own, its entire congregations

Thanks.

Yes the issue of women priests and homosexual marriage is bringing about a realignment of the Anglican church for sure.
These issues seem intractable for that church.

Onesimus

This was us back in 1595, Anglicans are bit behind eh? :P

Great to see it. I am not surprised they have come back home. Wonderful to see the grace of conversion being poured into these women as the result of prayer of the Church.

philologos

homer911 wrote: »

In general?

What I've learnt about the Anglican church over recent months is that its an incredibly broad church, with very many flavours, some extremely close to the Roman Catholic tradition - indeed when I saw the recent BBC series on trainees in the Church in Wales, if it hadnt been for the women priests, I would have considered it Roman Catholic.

To me its a bit of a Yugoslavia - a miracle that it has stayed (largely) intact for so long.

The church is also splitting itself apart apart at the moment over (sorry to mention it again) the whole gay marriage issue.

The Anglican church as we know it today will be very different in probably no more than 10 years time

What you tend to find is that its rarely priests that convert on their own, its entire congregations

It's not quite as simple. You have 3 or possibly 4 main strands in Anglicanism from what I can tell.

1. Broad church
2. Anglo-Catholic
3. Reformed / Evangelical

1 and 2 can be liberal. 2 can be conservative. 3 tends to be more conservative than liberal on much theological issues. I would say that 2 and 3 would be minority expressions in the Church of England, the one which is seeing the most growth is probably the Reformed / Evangelical side especially as more Anglo-Catholic churches are considering union with Rome.

Roughly 40% of Anglican churches would align themselves with evangelicalism, and roughly the same proportion of ordinands would identify themselves as evangelicals. What is most interesting is that although 40% of churches are evangelical, 83% of those with over 300 congregants are evangelical.

Most people over-simplify Anglicanism. There's a lot more going on than meets the eye.

It's not as simple as saying that conservatives in the CofE and other denominations are essentially Anglo-Catholic. There are a lot of liberal Anglo-Catholic churches also.