Anglicans and Roman Catholics Discuss Recognition of Ministry
Friday, April 29, 2016 at 12:21PM
Embryo Parson in Anglican Follies, Anglican Orders, Anglo-Catholicism, Book of Common Prayer, English Reformation, Evangelical and Catholic, Historical Theology, Roman Catholicism, The Problem of Anglican Identity, Traditional Anglicanism, Women's Ordination

This is a hopeful sign, though I have picked up intimations from modern Catholic bishops and scholars hither and yon that they know that Anglican orders are valid Catholic orders.  I'm with Dom Gregory Dix on this one:  there is no need for Anglicans to sweat the orders issue.   What they need to be concerned about is when Catholics don't behave like Catholics, and Anglicans, including purportedly conservative ones, have some serious repenting to do in this regard.  Exhibit A: Women's ordination. 

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