Issue is not whether Pope is welcoming Anglicans into Catholic Church.
Fundamental questions :Is Christianity all about incresing numbers?
While Vatican and Christians have been vociferous in declaring that they are not proslytising, by this act of trying to lure away Anglicans,Christianity has confirmed its messianic zeal in conversion,even of their own sub divisions.
Is it what Jesus would have wanted?
Is it the message of the Bible to increase numbers?Pope is a temporal
authority invented by Constantine and he can not assume the role of Saviour by granting political asylum as it were,to people because of his whims and fancies.
Married ,Gay or not,when people seek salvation, they should be in the faith.Who is Pope to determinethis?
If papacy feels it has been right in denying these rights to people of this nature,what has happened now to change their tune now?
Answer is -increase numbers.
Jesus will be the last person to recognise Christianity as the system of thought he has propounded, if he were alive to day.
Please do not insult Jesus, because of your petty attitudes like increasing numbers.
If Christianity has survived it is not because of these guys, but despite them,for Truth needs no promotion by jokers.
J
Story:
ROME, Italy (CNN) — The Vatican said Tuesday it has worked out a way for groups of Anglicans who are dissatisfied with their faith to join the Catholic Church.
The Vatican says more Anglicans have expressed an interest in joining the Catholic Church.
The process will enable groups of Anglicans to become Catholic and recognize the pope as their leader, yet have parishes that retain Anglican rites, Vatican officials said. The move comes some 450 years after King Henry VIII broke from Rome and created the Church of England, forerunner of the Anglican Communion.
The parishes would be led by former Anglican clergy — including those who are married — who would be ordained as Catholic priests, said the Rev. James Massa, ecumenical director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
“This sets up a process for whole groups of Anglicans — clergy and laity — to enter in to the Catholic Church while retaining their forms of worship and other Anglican traditions,” Massa said.
The number of Anglicans wishing to join the Catholic Church has increased in recent years as the Anglican Church has welcomed the ordination of women and openly gay clergy and blessed homosexual partnerships, said Cardinal William Joseph Levada, the head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/20/vatican.anglican.church/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
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