I've been busy over at The Anglo-Catholic

I've got a couple of posts up at The Anglo-Catholic, the official hub of all things pertaining to the Apostolic Constitution and the Personal Ordinariates for faithful Anglicans who wish full communion with the Holy See.

One on Priestly Celibacy and the Personal Ordinariates, and another on my love/hate relationship with ecumenism.

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Bookmark the site. There have been lots of interesting posts over the last several days, including information from the Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, Archbishop John Hepworth, about the formal letter each TAC bishop has received from Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Here's an excerpt:

In the past three weeks, each of the Bishops and Vicars General who signed the Petition to the Holy See of October 5^th 2007 seeking “corporate reunion with the Holy See” has received a formal response. These letters, from the Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, William Cardinal Levada, complete the process of the response of the Holy See to the Petition, and initiate the process of our formal response to the Apostolic Constitution.

The Cardinal makes the point in his letter that

This provision (the Apostolic Constitution with the Norms and Commentary) constitutes the definitive response of the Holy See not only to your original request, but also to the many others of a similar nature which have been submitted over the last years.

In the Petition, the bishops sought

…a communal and ecclesial way of being Anglican Catholics in communion with the Holy See, at once treasuring the full expression of catholic faith and treasuring our tradition within which we have come to this moment.

In another place, they state that the Traditional Anglican Communion was formed, in part

to seek as a body full and visible communion, particularly eucharistic communion, in Christ, with the Roman Catholic Church…

The Cardinal, in his letter, acknowledges our request

that some way might be found to welcome groups of clergy and faithful from the Traditional Anglican Communion into full visible unity with the Catholic Church, in a structure that could offer support and witness to the many evident graces of the Anglican tradition.

He goes on the add that, in the period since the submission of the Petition, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has completed a long and detailed study with the aim of making available

A suitable and viable model of organic unity for your and other such groups.