On Religious Events

[thelettuceman]

I read yesterday on the BBC news website that the Archbishop of Canterbury and Pope Benedict XVI are in talks to bring the two churches together. From what I gathered from the few articles they had, is that this initiative was broached initially by the Archbishop to allow dissatisfied Anglicans to convert into the Catholic Church and retain some,

Comments

[mccleverly]

I am Anglican/Episcopal and this upsets me greatly. There is a reason that I am not Catholic and the Episcopalian church suits my needs to that end.

[thelettuceman]

Is this a general feel in the Episcopalian church, do you know? The only person I know who is even remotely attached to that faith is no longer on my list of people whom I'd prefer to be speaking, so I cannot ask. On one hand I feel that there isn't going to be much reverberation in the provincial Episcopalian Churches, since this was specifically designed to give disenfranchised Anglicans a place where they're still part of the Church but in an organization where their views are more the norm.

On the other hand, is this a way for the Pope to shoehorn in and bring back millions of people into the fold?