Fully Visible Anglican Catholic Union Not Likely Soon
May 14, 2012 2 Comments
That’s according to New Zealand Anglican Archbishop, David Moxon. Well, with a crew looking like this, I’m going to have to agree with his assessment:
New Zealand Anglican Archbishop, David Moxon, says there seem to be many obstacles to fully visible Anglican Catholic union and it is unlikely to be achieved in the near future. He is the co-chairperson of the Anglican-Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) and was speaking at the Commission’s meeting in Hong Kong last week. “We can, however, do a lot of things together during this slow process,” he says…
The Anglican—Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) is an organization created in 1969 which seeks to make ecumenical progress between the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. The sponsors are the Anglican Consultative Council and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (formerly the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity).
ARCIC seeks to identify common ground between the two communions…
That common ground is rapidly crumbling. In any event, I still maintain that with the coming of Anglicanorum Coetibus, ARCIC is dead in the water.
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What about New Zealand? I know the 2 TAC Priests there refused any corporate reunion and are now in the “Holy Catholic Church – Anglican Rite”, but is there no Anglo-Catholics in that country?
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Not sure about your.comment on the picture….it isn’t an Anglican picture and RC Archbishop of Birmingham (England), a good friend of the Personal Ordinariate of OLW, is on the front row. I guess it is an ARCIC pic but your glib statement might lead people to think otherwise.
Further to your previous post, the problem with bloggers seems to me to be the temptation to slip into quick judgment and the concomitant danger of unintended (at least in your case) , insult.
ARCIC is a seemingly hopeless endeavour but at least it shows Anglican Catholics that the RC heirarchy at least takes their wish for unity seriously.