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More than perhaps any of the other groups, the Anglican Church has viewed the prospect of reunion with Rome as a feasible transformation. The Anglican-Roman Catholic negotiations have thus moved most rapidly. Two months ago, delegates of Rome and Canterbury, representing twelve years of talks, released their final report and concluded that the old doctrinal feuds no longer provide grounds for continued division. In a joint declaration of astonishing unanimity, the delegates agreed that there is no reason in principle why Anglicans cannot unite with Catholics under the universal primacy of the Bishop of Rome. (The title of Pope...
...rights in 1829, the English hierarchy was re-established in 1850, and devout Catholics were allowed to graduate from Oxford and Cambridge by 1871. In this historical context, British Catholics were as suspicious of Anglicans (not just in persecuted Ireland but throughout the British Isles) as Anglicans were of Rome...
Catholicism has managed to bypass or relieve many rancorous problems. Use of the Bible is far more widespread, and worship in common languages is the norm. While Rome still requires celibacy in the West, its Eastern rites retain their tradition of married priests. It has partially restored the practice that the laity may receive wine as well as bread during Communion, a point of sharp conflict in the 16th century. Other concessions flowed out of Vatican II, but a host of differences remains-including highly emotional issues, such as mixed marriages, divorce discipline, birth control, the rights of the laity...
...accept "transubstantiation." (This dogma means that while appearances remain the same, the words of consecration by a priest at Mass transform the entire substance of the bread and wine into Christ's literal body and blood.) However, Eastern Orthodoxy does not require any such formulation either, and Rome nevertheless recognizes its sacraments as "true...
...have been, "absolutely null and utterly void," mainly because the 16th century ordination rite omitted the power of priests to offer a sacrifice of Christ in the Mass. Therefore Anglican Primate Runcie and other bishops are technically, in papal eyes, not ordained priests at all. (An added complication is Rome's insistence that women cannot be priests, while several Anglican churches, though not the Church of England, have ordained 400 women since...