Will the Roman Catholic Church soon allow Priests to marry? And if they do, what will this do to the Church?

Pope Benedict has extended an invitation to Anglicans who realize that their current church has strayed far from authentic Christian practice. The invitation is to enter into full communion with The Catholic Church. Special arrangements have been made to allow former Anglicans to remain many of their styles of worship while still following genuine Christian doctrine within the Catholic Church.

I am Roman Catholic. Peace be with you. EDIT: To anyone who says protestants who enter the Catholic Church seem to be forgetting what the reformation was all about, I suggest you study harder what was the intention of the original protestants.

In Germany the plan ORIGINALLY was NOT to start a new church. In England, the plan was to violate Christianity as much as necessary to steal Catholic Church property and allow King Henry to divorce and remarry without violating the rules of his new church. In neither case were the reasons proper to the establishment of new churches.

What has happened is that the Pope has made a special provision for Anglicans who want to convert to Catholicism. Instead of them converting as individuals and joining existing Catholic parishes, he has said that they can come across as groups and form their own parishes or communities. These will be able to worship according to Anglican traditions so long as they adhere to Catholic doctrine.

It is thought that this offer will be particularly attractive to conservative Anglicans who are disconcerted by the liberal ideology which is becoming prevelant in their church. This new system, known as the Anglican Ordinariate, is being set up at the moment and should be in place by next Easter. From what I have read, I would expect there to be a few tens of thousands who will take advantage of it straight away.

That would be a big enough number to make it viable, but is not very big when compared with the numbers of Anglicans worldwide. I do not think that a more general re-union of Anglicans and Catholics is likely, because Anglicanism is split into several theological factions. This includes large numbers of 'low church' Anglicans and also of liberals, neither of whom are particularly close to Rome in terms of what they believe.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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