'JUST ONE STEP FROM ROME'

THINKING ANGLICANS [Fort Worth: some look to Rome]

The Dallas Morning News has this report: Episcopal priests from Fort Worth may be looking at Catholicism.

A delegation of Episcopal priests from Fort Worth paid a visit to Catholic Bishop Kevin Vann earlier this summer, asking for guidance on how their highly conservative diocese might come into “full communion” with the Catholic Church.

Whether that portends a serious move to turn Fort Worth Episcopalians and their churches into Catholics and Catholic churches is a matter of dispute.

The Rev. William Crary, senior rector of the Fort Worth diocese, confirmed that on June 16 he and three other priests met with Bishop Vann, leader of the Fort Worth Catholic diocese, and presented him a document that is highly critical of the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion.

The document states that the overwhelming majority of Episcopal clergy in the Fort Worth diocese favor pursuing an “active plan” to bring the diocese into full communion with the Catholic Church…

To which I made a comment

I swear it's like a migraine that just won't go away. Certainly, there is no humility shown by these clergy types from Ft Worth. This is not the first time some Episcopal clergy wanted to go to Rome, right? Well, why don't they just go! But they also want to take their wives with them and I doubt that Rome will like that. (Will these priests receive special treatment in in the Roman Church?)... how can a small group of priests decide for the members of their parishes?

Not to go unmentioned is the drastic state of American RC parishes. With the dwindling numbers attending mass and the consolidation of parishes in some cities or the actual boarding up of parishes by their diocesan bishops, will the Episcopalians be expected to give their financial support, especially after they've had to $deal$ with the property lawsuits surrounding their former parishes?



And Jack Iker is married; I daresay Benny won't let Iker borrow his mitre!