Ed. Note: Periodically we hear that not all Anglican Church in America parishes will go into one of the ordinariates now authorized in the Roman Catholic Church, but this article does not mention any such hold-outs.

tp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7375163/100-US-Anglican-parishes-convert-to-Roman-Catholic-Church.html

100 US ANGLICAN PARISHES CONVERT TO ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

About 100 traditionalist Anglican parishes across the United States have decided to convert en masse to the Roman Catholic Church, it emerged yesterday.

By Simon Caldwell
Published: 6:53PM GMT 05 Mar 2010

C Of E Synod Resoundingly Affirms
ACNA's Goal Of Staying In "Anglican Family"

The Foundation for Christian Theology
www.challengeonline.org
February 10, 2010

Dear Friends of The Christian Challenge:

We are deeply saddened by the recent loss to the Church Militant of our friend, the Rev. Canon John Heidt. A warm, caring, and personable Christian soul and very fine Anglican priest, author and writer, Fr. John stood firm for the Church's historic faith and order over many years of distinguished service both in England and the U.S. We are privileged to pass on the following account of Fr. John's life.

OFFICIAL TEXT: APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION ANGLICANORUM COETIBUS PROVIDING FOR PERSONAL ORDINARIATES FOR ANGLICANS ENTERING INTO FULL COMMUNION WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

9.11.2009


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http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsIDR09

Membership drops in the Episcopal Church
Thursday, 29th October 2009. 3:50pm

By: George Conger

“New Era” Seen As Pope Expands

Welcome For Anglican Groups



Announcement An Effective “Yes” To TAC Petition



Move Defies Strong Opposition In Canterbury And

Among Some Vatican Officials, One Source Claims



By Auburn Faber Traycik

The Foundation for Christian Theology (Washington)

October 22, 2009





IN A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT, the Pope has proposed a structural provision enabling Anglican groups worldwide to come into full communion with the Holy See while retaining some aspects of their Anglican identity and heritage.



Responding to “many requests” from faithful Anglican clergy and laity in different parts of the globe, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) said October 20 that Pope Benedict XVI is soon to issue an Apostolic Constitution authorizing the establishment of “personal ordinariates” for Anglican groups seeking corporate reunion with Rome.



Under the Constitution, such groups would be permitted to use elements of Anglican liturgy in worship and receive oversight from a formerly Anglican priest or unmarried bishop. As well, married Anglican priests and seminarians could become Catholic priests (albeit not bishops), in much the same way that Eastern rite priests who are in communion with Rome are allowed to be married.

NOTE: Below are items following up on our brief report regarding former Quincy (IL) Bishop Keith Ackerman a couple of days ago. The report said that TEC’s Presiding Bishop had executed documents claiming that Ackerman, who has been serving as part-time assisting bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield, had “[renounced] the ordained ministry of this church” and declaring his removal from the same. In a letter to Ackerman, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori indicated she was acting on information that the traditionalist former Quincy leader intends to continue his ministry by serving as a bishop of the Diocese of Bolivia in the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, another part of the same communion of which TEC still claims to be a part. However, she asserted that there “is no provision for transferring a bishop to another province” within that same communion. A statement from and interview with Bishop Ackerman follow below.

P.B. Maintains That Ackerman Has "Renounced" Ministry

The Foundation for Christian Theology
October 17, 2009

It seems that former Quincy Episcopal Bishop Keith Ackerman has now joined the ranks of those prelates whom Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori deems to have "[renounced] the ordained ministry of this church."

In communications circulated today, Jefferts Schori indicates that she had received word that Ackerman, a traditionalist, intends to continue his ministry by serving as a bishop in the Diocese of Bolivia of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, another part of the communion of which The Episcopal Church (TEC) claims to be a part.

The P.B. asserts in letters sent to Ackerman, however, that there "is no provision for transferring a bishop to another province." She provides copies of executed documents recognizing Ackerman's "renunciation of the ordained ministry of this church" and declaring his removal from the same.

The communications were circulated by Forward in Faith, North America (of which Ackerman is president), and were not accompanied by any further comment from the former leader of the Quincy diocese, the majority of which left TEC shortly after Ackerman stepped down as its bishop. Specifically, there was no confirmation or denial directly from Ackerman that he indeed plans to serve as a bishop linked to the Bolivian diocese. The FCT will pass on further information if/when it becomes available.

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http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/2675598/Archbishop-of-Canterburys-war-rant-mars-troops-tribute.html

A disgrace, Your Grace

By TOM NEWTON DUNN Defence Editor and MARTIN PHILLIPS Senior Feature Writer Published: 10 Oct 2009

THE Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday hijacked a service honouring the sacrifice of British troops in Iraq - to spout an anti-war rant.
The Queen, 11 other Royals, and former PM Tony Blair and wife Cherie sat in stony silence as Dr Rowan Williams began a ten-minute tirade in St Paul's Cathedral.

Ed. Note: Please find below two news reports, and a pastoral letter from Archbishop Robert Duncan, conveying some sad news for the (ex-Episcopal) Diocese of Pittsburgh and indeed for the whole of the new province, the Anglican Church in North America. This particular property dispute, involving the majority portion of the Diocese of Pittsburgh that separated from TEC in 2008, pivoted significantly on a 2005 stipulated court order. It gives us no pleasure to find that we were right to worry from the start that the wording of that order was insufficient to protect the interests of conservative future realigners in the way some of them evidently thought it would. It is important to note, though, that the decision reported here affects only diocesan property, not parish property. An appeal is being considered.