What about +Broadhurst? He seems to be waiting in COE Limbo. I do hope he comes over. What a wonderful leader of Anglican Catholics he'd make.

We need to just let Rome decide on a case by case basis. I think we can be confident and expect some will get dispensations. Of course, some cases may be rejected (I think we need to be honest here). In the end it's up to Rome who gets accepted and who does not.

MS: That's correct, and this normally applies to men who are Anglican laymen as well as former Anglican clerics.

Does this mean that those of us baptized in the Roman church as a child but Confirmed and ordained in the Episcopal church will not be able to be priests in the Ordinariate?

These are serious concerns regarding where he will fit into the Ordinariate. Even if he will be allowed to become part of the Ordinariate, I pray that people will realize that many of the Anglican Use priests have had to sacrifice to become Catholics. It is a mystery how our Lord uses people for His purpose and to our human eyes seem to have to suffer in some respects.

My former priest who had so much to do with establishing the Pastoral Provision was denied an Anglcian Use parish. We went on our own as individuals to become Catholic and he is now a Latin Rite priest. Although I am know that the Lord has used him greatly, I feel that a part of him misses the Anglican traditions.

I give him great credit for what he gave up to become Catholic. This is what makes a great leader, a person who can accomplish wonderful things for others and yet must sacrifice themselves.

+Beverley (Martyn Jarrett), alone among the current PEVs, seems to be undecided; of the retirees Barnes is certainly in favor, but Gaisford spoke up strongly against "the Roman option" at last October's annual FIF/UK meeting. Chichester, maybe — and possibly also the quondam of York?

http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7219&Itemid=19&ed=1

Yes the ACNA realizes the CoE will create a position for women who wish to be known as Bishop. In the Canons and Constitution of the ACNA, women's ordination is accepted. Oh there are some restricts, but the ACNA does have women recognized as deacon and priest. I am in the REC of the ACNA. While we strictly prohibit ordaining women, we are being forced to accept them in vestments in our Churches. They appear at ordinations etc, process in but so far I have not witnessed any in the Sanctuary near the Altar. Being associated with the ACNA has the effect of making one comfortable with heresy.

ArchBishop Duncan supports womens ordination. Since last June 09, the ACNA has ordained women to deacon and priest. Bishop Iker of Fort Worth has declared he is in impaired communion with his own ArchBishop due to women's ordination, He has asked the ArchBishop to stop personnally ordaining women. This was reported on Virtue On Line website.

At the last meeting of the ACNA Bishops, women's ordination was ignored. Bishop Grote of the REC attempted to bring it up, but ArchBishop Duncan "tabled" the discuss until the next meeting in June 2010. While AMiA has a paper that supports the scriptures and tradition of not ordaining, they still grandfather (mother?) women in and continue to ordain women as deacon. Some Bishops who oppose WO are set to retire, Bishop Schofield in California. The names I have heard as successor include those soft on WO.

When I join ACNA, I foolishly believed what I was told that WO would pass and end. That I would not have to serve with females who have been told they are deacon and priest. I now know that the ACNA is just the Episcopal Church of 10-20 years ago and in a few rapid years will be just like them.

Like I said earlier, the ACNA wants to be ANglican. To be Anglican they must be recognized by the ArchBishop of Canterbury.

Fr.Mark

It certainly looks like the “tectonic plates” are readjusting after the recent decision of General Synod to exclude a “safe haven” for Anglo-Catholics and conservative Evangelicals. Others have said that an exodus of the Anglo-Catholics would leave a gaping hole for someone else to jump into. The Methodists are in free-fall decline and will certainly need financial support from the Church of England.

Seen through American eyes, this would be the case. But, this is the UK, and more people faced with change will either react according to the “Vicar of Bray Syndrome” or give up going to church altogether.

I don’t think the exodus of Anglo-Catholics (to Rome or to stay in bed on Sunday mornings) will be a determining factor in any revival of low-church / evangelical Anglicanism. The new few months will verify the numbers of C of E clergy and laity interested in the Ordinariate project.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7023713.ece?&EMC-Bltn=MJU9T2F