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What I became aware of was that it was almost impossible to say 'the Church teaching is' within the Anglican church because there are so many various opinions on matters of sacraments, liturgy, morality, scripture etc. What I did not want to experience anymore was proclaiming the teaching of the Church only to end up defending myself rather than the Anglican church defending me. This has become an ever-increasing impossibility that is no secret to the entire Anglican world. My preaching would always be seen as a matter of personal opinion rather than having the authority of the Magisterium that backs up what I teach publicly. Of course there is dissent in the Catholic Church but it is always that, dissent towards what Mother Church proclaims as authoritatively true. It is the truth of Mother Church that I embrace as my own deep personal faith.

Powerofone

Tuesday, 9. June 2009, 21:39

or the Jordan.

Powerofone

Tuesday, 9. June 2009, 21:39

or the Jordan.

Baltimore Sun

 

The members of the All Saints Sisters of the Poor were welcomed into the Catholic Church by Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien, who confirmed the women during a Mass in their chapel. Each vowed to continue their tradition of consecrated life, now as a religious institute within the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

"We know our beliefs and where we are," said Mother Christina Christie, superior of the order that came to Baltimore in 1872. "We were drifting farther apart from the more liberal road the Episcopal Church is travelling. We are now more at home in the Roman Catholic Church."

Also joining the church was the Rev. Warren Tanghe, the sisters' chaplain. In a statement, Episcopal Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton wished them God's blessings.

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The Community, now at Curzon Park, Chester, began as an Anglican Benedictine foundation at Feltham, Middlesex, on 24th June, 1868. After several moves, including Twickenham, West Malling and Milford Haven, the Community settled in North Wales, having been received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1913.

Bishop Francis Mostyn, who had accepted the new Catholic Nuns as his special charge, also found them a home when his family residence, Talacre Hall and Estate had to be auctioned in 1919. The Community moved to North Wales in 1920.

The early years in Wales were ones of growth but also of hardship as the Community struggled to establish itself. In 1921, the Nuns were accepted as members of the English Benedictine Congregation, thus inheriting a venerable tradition and a more deeply-rooted Catholic identity.

KatyA

Friday, 4. September 2009, 12:39

Baltimore Sun
There is a further report at Catholic Review
The Baltimore report also says that according to a scholar of Anglicanism at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., while individuals have moved and back and forth between the Episcopal and Catholic churches, the confirmation of virtually an entire order appears to be a first.

Baltimore Sun

 

The Rev. Ian T. Douglas, a scholar of Anglicanism at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., said that while individuals have moved and back and forth between the Episcopal and Catholic churches, the confirmation of virtually an entire order appears to be a first.

John Sweeney

Friday, 4. September 2009, 18:37

I believe this happened too way back in the case of the monks at Caldey Island, Pembrokeshire. Seems strange to me that individuals can take such a collective decision but there you go.

John

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The Rev Taylor, whose children's book Shadowmancer became an international best-seller, said he was turning instead to the Roman Catholic church, which he believes is less afraid to stand up for important moral issues.

John Sweeney

Saturday, 7. November 2009, 23:26

By the way, it's probably Catholic arrogance but I had assumed that to become an Anglican you simply had to turn up at church. In fact, there seems to be a rigorous induction process and of course that seems obvious when you think about it!