Welcome Anglicans!

While St. Paul wrote in his letter to the Ephesians: 'There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism," there are many separate denominations.

When asked to explain his church, one ordained Episcopal deacon I knew said "Catholic Lite." Similar, but not the same... No match. The board goes back.

Named from the Greek word for bishops, The Episcopal Church has worship very similar to post-Vatican II Roman Catholicism, but an entirely different approach to centralized hierarchical authority. And in recent years, in attempting to become more welcoming, participatory and inclusive, it has become "too liberal" (particularly regarding its stance on women and gays) for some adherents, and more conservative national factions within the worldwide offspring of the Church of England known as the Anglican Communion... Especially in Africa.

Now the Vatican has formally put out the welcome mat for groups of Anglicans who are dissatisfied with their faith, including bishops and married priests, to retain some of their Anglican traditions while rejoining the Catholic Church some 450 years after King Henry VIII broke from Rome.

The Christian Science Monitor calls it "the boldest move since the Reformation."
Google News Search -- Wall St Journal -- The Huffington Post called it A Tough Call for Conservative Anglicans: Openly Gay Clergy, or Closeted Pedophiles?