The Anglican Catholic Church is part of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, faithfully continuing the Anglican tradition. We practice and uphold the historic Catholic Faith, Apostolic Order, Orthodox Worship, and Evangelical Witness of the traditional Anglican Church.
A Response from the Anglican Catholic Church to Rome’s Offer to Former Anglicans
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) on October 20th issued a widely publicized Note that summarizes a forthcoming Apostolic Constitution concerning former Anglicans seeking to be received into full union with the Roman Catholic Church. This Constitution, as best one can judge from the Note, mainly will do two new things:
First, it will extend internationally terms offered already to some in North American by the Pastoral Provision and by the Book of Divine Worship. The Pastoral Provision permits ordination as Roman Catholic priests for some married, formerly Anglican clergy who join the Roman Catholic Church, and this despite the general Roman demand for clerical celibacy. The Book of Divine Worship contains some liturgical forms which have sources in the Anglican tradition: the so-called Anglican Use.
Archbishop's Video Message to the Diocese of Aweil
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Metropolitan’s Address to the Provincial Synod, Richmond, Virginia, October 2009
Imagine please a great nation with over 300,000,000 inhabitants. Imagine that the dominant culture in place is neither Catholic nor Christian. Usually that culture is simply indifferent to the Faith. Sometimes, however, the nation’s bureaucrats and scholars and politicians and other powers are curious about the Faith concerning which for the most part they really have little accurate knowledge. More often, it seems, the national leadership is sharply hostile to the Faith.
Imagine, further, a small body of clergymen and laymen who have labored for more than 30 years in this great nation. Finally, consider that at the end of those initial decades there are fewer than 10,000 members of this Church to show as the fruit of the work of the vineyard laborers.