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Rome's opportunity to reach out to Anglicans
August 07, 2009
With the Anglican communion in tatters, the time is ripe for the Vatican to create a new mechanism that would allow Anglicans to enter the Catholic Church in large numbers, argues Damian Thompson of the Daily Telegraph. He adds that Pope Benedict XVI-- who has shown a sympathetic interest in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, and understands the desire of conservative Anglicans to preserve their distinctive liturgy-- is the right man to find the solution.
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