{"id":341,"date":"2011-01-18T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/01\/anglican-clergy-defection-to-new-catholic-church-umbrella-begins.html"},"modified":"2011-01-18T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T11:53:00","slug":"anglican-clergy-defection-to-new-catholic-church-umbrella-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/01\/anglican-clergy-defection-to-new-catholic-church-umbrella-begins.html","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Clergy Defection to New Catholic Church Body Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/01\/getting-cute-with-father-cutie\/\"> former Catholic priest&nbsp;Alberto Cutie <\/a>(aka &#8220;Father Oprah&#8221;)&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/80263_126475_ENG_HTM.htm\">has been out promoting his book about his defection to the Episcopal Church<\/a> and happy new life as a husband and father, three former Anglican bishops, apparently seeking more conservative pastures, were preparing to take up the Vatican&#8217;s offer to join a new Roman Catholic body:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110115\/ap_on_re_eu\/eu_britain_anglicans_catholics\">Former Anglican bishops ordained Catholics <\/a>(AP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/16\/world\/europe\/16vatican.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">Vatican welcomes first Anglicans converting under new rules <\/a>(New York Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/2011\/01\/17\/new-catholic-subdivision-for-ex-anglicans-will-not-be-ghetto\/\">New Catholic subdivision for ex-Anglicans will not be a ghetto <\/a>(Reuters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/ordinariates-supreme-law.html\">The Ordinariate&#8217;s &#8220;Supreme Law&#8221; <\/a>(Whispers in the Loggia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s stories like this that convince me that human beings&nbsp;simply need more than one spiritual path &#8212; even within western Christianity,&nbsp;some people only feel comfortable with traditional routes, others yearn for a liberal approach, etc. In any case, it&#8217;ll be interesting to see whether the number of ex-Anglican clergy&nbsp;joining this new Roman Catholic body (and conveniently allowed to keep their spouses, if they&#8217;re already married) comes close to the hundreds of Catholic priests who have become Protestant in order to marry. <\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While former Catholic priest&nbsp;Alberto Cutie (aka &#8220;Father Oprah&#8221;)&nbsp;has been out promoting his book about his defection to the Episcopal Church and happy new life as a husband and father, three former Anglican bishops, apparently seeking more conservative pastures, were preparing to take up the Vatican&#8217;s offer to join a new Roman Catholic body: Former Anglican&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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