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mittfh
27 October 2009 at 14:21

Never mind schism in the Anglican church - I can imagine that if the Pope attracts significant numbers of Anglicans to this new "Ordinariate", there might be murmurs from the Catholics...

After all, Catholic priests are required to be celibate, but Anglican converts aren't (and indeed, many will probably have families)...so whilst the Anglicans will avoid a two tier church, the Catholics will end up with one!

dominic
29 October 2009 at 00:24

That you could lavish praise on such a tired piece of post modern liberal trash says more about your powers of reasoning that it does about the state of the Catholic Church. It will be thriving long after you and your tedious diatribes are forgotten dust.

Francis
02 November 2009 at 02:10

James - with respect, you're making yourself look rather foolish here. The papal proposal has come in response to repeated petitioning from Anglican clergy (including bishops, such as the Bishop of Ebbsfleet) who have visited Rome and requested the provision of such a structure. I appreciate that British journalism has a long and lucrative history of imputing the worst intentions to Catholics - Titus Oates would not feel out of place on a Murdoch newsdesk - but I think the New Statesman should probably aim a little higher. "Disgraceful mugging" is a ludicrous characterisation.