The following
press release appears on the website of the USCCB:
Doctrine Of The Faith Congregation Names Archbishop Wuerl To Guide Bringing Anglican Groups Into Catholic Church In U.S.
WASHINGTON (September 23, 2010)—The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has named Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington to guide the incorporation of Anglican groups into the Catholic Church in the United States.
In this position, he is a delegate of the congregation and heads the U.S. bishops’ ad hoc committee charged with assisting CDF in implementing the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus. Pope Benedict XVI issued the document in November 2009 to provide for establishing personal ordinariates for Anglican groups who seek to enter corporately into full communion with the Catholic Church.
The personal ordinariate is a canonical structure similar to a diocese that covers the area of a bishops’ conference. This permits the incoming Anglicans to be part of the Catholic Church while maintaining aspects of their Anglican heritage and liturgical practice.
Other members of the ad hoc committee are Bishop Kevin Vann of Fort Worth, Texas, and Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester, Massachusetts. The committee will be assisted by Father Scott Hurd, who was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1993, joined the Catholic Church in 1996, and was ordained a Catholic priest for the Archdiocese of Washington in 2000. Father Hurd will assist Archbishop Wuerl as staff to the ad hoc committee and a liaison to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
Interested Anglicans are asked to contact Archbishop Wuerl through the Washington Archdiocese.
The ad hoc committee has two tasks:
To facilitate the implementation of Anglicanorum coetibus in the United States
To assess the level of interest in such an ordinariate in the United States.
7 comments:
This is wonderful news. Now the naysayers will have nothing to say, except to continue to downplay this great event.
God Bless our great Pope, he is a man of courage and strength.
Father I read you post on of course the challenges these people inlcuing academics, priests, and others are going to have.
I posted on my blog that it might be helpful that many of us already in the Church in the USA think about asking the Bishops to have a second Sunday Collection to assist this effort over the next decade.
It appears funds will be needed. What is your thoughts on this and has it been discussed among people in the know.
Fr. Phillips,
Great news! I pray that your hard work and the example of Our Lady of the Atonement will favorably incline our new archbishop toward Anglicanorum Coetibus.
God bless you and God bless your parish.
Fr. Bill in LA
The Archbishop is a good choice overall (love his TEACHING OF CHRIST catechism) but he has rep of being against or at least not supporting the EF. I hope this doesn't affect his new position as far as the new Anglican Use liturgy goes, esp. if it's along the Sarum/English Missal lines.
Isn't it out of the hands of the local Bishop as far as the liturgy and establishing parishes go. Of course the new Ordinary will confer with the Archbishop, but in the end he will deal directly with the CDF?
This is exactly why Pope Benedict set the Ordiariates up this way, to stop local Bishops from interferring with AU parishes and trying stop them. He has also tried to enforce people who want the TLM celebrated to be allowed to do so without the Bishop's approval.
For a good read, go to Whispers in the Loggia Thursday, September 23, 2010 and look for the article named: Anglicanorum Wuerlibus.
Catchy name, eh?
We should understand that Archbishop Wuerl's position is a temporary one, only until an Ordinariate is established and the Ordinary appointed. His task is to work with the USCCB, to keep the bishops informed, and also to be the "local representative" of the CDF.
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