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Why are people saying the Catholic Church is taking over the Anglican Church? I wish that were true?

the Anglican Church is kind of a joke (even though I highly admire many Anglican theologians). I wish the Vatican really were taking them over. the Catholic Church is superior in every way.

In 2007, 400,000 Anglicans formally requested for the opportunity to rejoin the Catholic Church:

http://www.thefloridacatholic.org/rop/2008_rop/2008_roparticles/20080710_rop_traditional_anglicans.php

The Catholic Church is responding to this and other requests from Anglican groups and individuals. This is well thought out and planned pastoral concern and action.

There are already over 20 different Catholic Churches that make up the worldwide Catholic Church.

In addition to the Latin Rite (Roman) Catholic Church, the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches are in full communion with the Pope, and are part of the same worldwide Catholic Church.

Eastern Rite Catholic Churches include:

Alexandrian liturgical tradition
• Coptic Catholic Church
• Ethiopic Catholic Church

Antiochian (Antiochene or West-Syrian) liturgical tradition
• Maronite Church http://www.bkerkelb.org/
• Syrian Catholic Church
• Syro-Malankara Catholic Church http://www.syromalankara.org/

Armenian liturgical tradition:
• Armenian Catholic Church http://www.armeniancatholic.org/

Chaldean or East Syrian liturgical tradition:
• Chaldean Catholic Church
• Syro-Malabar Church http://www.smcim.org/

Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) liturgical tradition:

http://www.byzcath.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=145&Itemid=62

• Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church
• Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
• Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
• Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Križevci
• Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
• Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
• Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
• Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
• Melkite Greek Catholic Church http://www.pgc-lb.org/english/index.shtml
• Romanian Church
• Russian Byzantine Catholic Church
• Ruthenian Catholic Church
• Slovak Greek Catholic Church
• Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Now into this beautiful mix of many cultures and traditions (but one shared doctrine), something like the Anglican Catholic Church will arise. Here is Pope Benedict's new Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_ben-xvi_apc_20091104_anglicanorum-coetibus_en.html

Even Anglican primate Archbishop Rowan Williams wrote, “in the light of recent discussions with senior officials in the Vatican, I can say that this new possibility is in no sense at all intended to undermine existing relations between our two communions or to be an act of proselytism or aggression. It is described as simply a response to specific enquiries from certain Anglican groups and individuals wishing to find their future within the Roman Catholic Church.” http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=17440

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13121a.htm

With love in Christ.

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