Fr. de Valk at Catholic Insight weighs in

How then should we interpret Pope Benedict’s invitation? It should be seen, I believe, as a final rescue and hope for Anglicans who are close to Catholic thinking in both doctrine and discipline. At their request the Pope is making available an Anglican rite, honouring a liturgy of prayer and music in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. But doctrine and discipline will have to be fully Catholic, with none of the customary Anglican ambiguity. Applicants will have to express their faith in Catholic articles of faith; those seeking priesthood will have to be ordained as priests who re-enact the Eucharistic Sacrifice of Christ’s body and blood. The veneration of Mary, mother of Our Lord Jesus and therefore Mother of God, and that of God’s holy martyrs and confessors, together with other essentials such as belief in prayers for the deceased faithful in purgatory and acceptance of the Magisterium as the final voice in protecting the truths of faith, are part and parcel of our beautiful and precious religion, which is the salvation of the world.

Debate will end. Peace of soul will come. To paraphrase G.K. Chesterton, “dogma satisfies a hunger. For dogma means the serious satisfaction of the mind. Dogma does not mean the absence of thought but the end of thought.”

Unlike many writing on this subject, Fr. de Valk is much more well-informed.