Anglo-Catholics Can Return To Rome

The Vatican has paved a way for Anglicans to enter the Catholic Church "while preserving elements of the distinctive Anglican spiritual and liturgical patrimony". This has been met with enthusiasm by traditional Anglicans. Liberals and evangelicals in the Anglican Communion will have little interest but for very different (and obvious) reasons.

I'm personally intrigued by this because, as a family, we were members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Darien, CT from 1988 to 1997. I credit that time at St. Paul's with softening my lapsed-Catholic heart towards the Catholic Church and growing fond of liturgy. It was a slow transformation that led to my own return to the Ancient Church during Lent 2000.

It will be very interesting to see how this new avenue plays out in a practical way.