'CHURCH OF ENGLAND REPORTS ON ACNA'

From Thinking Anglicans:

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18. We would, therefore, encourage an open-ended engagement with ACNA on the part of the Church of England and the Communion, while recognising that the outcome is unlikely to be clear for some time yet, especially given the strong feelings on all sides of the debate in North America.

19. The Church of England remains fully committed to the Anglican Communion and to being in communion both with the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church (TEC). In addition, the Synod motion has given Church of England affirmation to the desire of ACNA to remain in some sense within the Anglican famil

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There you have it. Nothing to see here. Move along.

'HOPES FADE FOR CANADIAN ANGLICAN ORDINARIATE'

From The Catholic Register in Canada:

As hopeful Anglo-Catholic parishes across Canada completed two months of catechetical study Dec. 18, dreams of a Canadian Catholic ordinariate for ex-Anglicans are fading.
"We had hoped, of course, we would have our own Canadian ordinariate, but we realize our numbers may not warrant it," Bishop Carl Reid, Anglican Catholic Church of Canada auxiliary bishop, told The Catholic Register.
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The number of Canadian break-away Anglicans seeking a place in the Catholic Church has declined in the two years since Pope Benedict XVI issued Anglicanorum Coetibus, an apostolic constitution intended to provide for groups of Anglicans entering the Catholic Church but retaining significant elements of Anglican liturgy.
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"A number of our people who weren't clear when they joined us of our intention to seek unity — even though it is in our foundational documents, our constitution — when unity became not only a possibility but a reality they just sort of left," said Reid. "That reduced our numbers from what they were two years ago."

So. It seems for now that the Canadian breakaways may have to make do with being part of the US ordinariate, since numbers of their people decided that they were not comfortable becoming Roman Catholic converts.

Among the issues being worked out are the final resting place of ACCC clergy. Where 67 Anglican priests in the United States have submitted dossiers seeking Catholic ordination and 35 have received a nulla osta, or initial approval, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, none of the Canadian Anglican clergy who have applied have heard back from Rome.

When I read the initial sentence in the paragraph above, I assumed that the final resting place referred to where the clergy would be buried, and I wondered why there was such concern about the location of graves, but I was wrong. The 'final resting place' refers to the decision about the clergy's 'place' of ministry in the church of Rome while they are yet alive, which seems to be coming slowly in Canada.

The article in the Catholic Register is dated December 20, 2011, so perhaps there has been movement forward since then, but I have not found more recent news.

I wish those who departed the Anglican Church of Canada well, and I hope the people and parishes find a place where they will be at peace in their worship and practice of the faith.

The photo is of Bishop Carl Reid, Anglican Catholic Church of Canada auxiliary bishop.

Thanks to Ann V who pointed me to the article in The Catholic Register via Anglicans Ablaze.