According to Archbishop Gregory Venables, the former Primiate of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, then Cardinal Bergoglio and now Pope Francis told him over lunch that the Ordinariate "is unnecessary" and that Cardinal Bergoglio "valued Anglicans in the Church Universal"
We agree with the Pope. The Ordinariate is unnecessary if only had Anglicans stuck to Scripture and Tradition. Unfortunately the Anglican Communion introduced many innovations to its life as a church that are not consistent with the Apostolic tradition preserved by the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental churches. That many distressed Anglicans petitioned Rome to be let in as whole communities while preserving their Anglican heritage, was the main reason why Pope Benedict XVI decided to promulgate Anglicanorum coetibus.
We also agree with the Pope that we value Anglicans in the Universal Church. The Catholic Church has valued and continues to value the Anglican Communion that the Second Vatican Council declared that it "occupies a special place" even if separated, in the life of the Church.
The troubles facing the Anglican Communion are of great concern to the Church and to the popes.
We have to place the then Cardinal Bergoglio's statements in their proper context. The Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of South America is one of the traditionalist provinces of the Anglican Communion. It shares many theological positions with the Catholic Church and has worked closely on pro life and human rights issues in Argentina and most recently against the Argentine government's decision to legalize same sex unions.
In contrast some Anglican churches in Europe and North America have given the green light to bless same sex unions in church.
If Cardinal Bergoglio had been an archbishop in North America then he would have had a different point of view.
Now as Pope Francis, we are confident that he will support the three Anglican ordinariates in their evangelical witness.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
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ReplyDelete"We agree with the Pope. The Ordinariate is unnecessary if only had Anglicans stuck to Scripture and Tradition."
ReplyDeleteThis comment leads me to believe that you guys think that if you were to remain Anglican outside of union with Rome that you are still "Catholic"?? Even if the Anglican Church had stuck to Tradition and Scripture, as you say, if would have still been out of communion with the Pope and lacked valid holy orders as well as officially adhering to heresy, thus such notions are heresy!
Sorry to say, but if the Pope said that – he is wrong! The Catholic (union with the Pope) church is the one true church – (even if we don’t have a great Pope at times) – outside of which there is no salvation. The Anglican Communion outside of the ordinariates are not catholic and are the very definition of the term protestant. The ordinariate is not a refuge from the liberal rot of the Anglican heresy, no it is an invitation to you to come home to the one true church and to allow you to keep those things that legitimate to your tradition. Otherwise, it was a false version of Christianity!
Travis Blalock – Former Anglican
A wrong interpretation of "Extra ecclesia nulla salus" is heretical and was justly condemned by Rome in the last century. And these wrong interpretations result in an erroneous reading of Pope Francis statement. Francis like Benedict and all the Popes before them, want the whole Anglican Communion reconciled as a single body. However the present theology in the Anglican Communion make this impossible, thus the need for the Ordinariates which may I remind you the Anglicans themselves requested. If the whole Anglican Communion were to be reconciled, there won't be a need for an Ordinariate.
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