Recently 40 parishes in the Canadian Traditional Communion decided to officially enter Communion with the Roman See. The Pope, Father Benedict, recently issued Anglicanorum Coetibus. The personal ordinariate allows the former Anglican parishes to retain much of their liturgical and spiritual practices. It also states former Anglican Clergy may be ordained priest in the Catholic Church even though they are married. They however may not become bishops as Bishops must be unmarried in both the Eastern and Roman Churches. This is a welcomed sign from Rome, welcoming those Anglicans who find the Communion going down a path they cannot follow. Personally I think it's great Rome is giving conservative Anglican-Catholic Parishes an option. To seek to be in communion with the African Churches is not really an option as the Anglican's there are very Protestant and Low Church. The future of Anglicanism is bleak indeed, we have ended any chance to rejoin either western or eastern Church and have isolated ourselves to lead the world in an experiment of liberal theology.
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