{"id":1925,"date":"2010-01-15T17:13:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T17:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2010\/01\/pope-defends-outreach-to-angli.php"},"modified":"2010-01-15T17:13:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T17:13:18","slug":"pope-defends-outreach-to-angli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2010\/01\/pope-defends-outreach-to-angli","title":{"rendered":"Pope Defends Outreach to Anglicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI defended his plan to make it easier for Anglicans to convert to Catholicism, saying that it served the &#8220;ultimate purpose&#8221; of dialogue between the two denominations.<br \/>\nThe pope spoke on Friday (Jan. 15), at a special plenary session of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Catholic church&#8217;s highest doctrinal authority.<br \/>\nThe Vatican announced in October that Anglicans, many of whom have been upset by their church&#8217;s growing acceptance of female clergy and homosexuality, will be allowed to join special Catholic dioceses while retaining many of their traditional prayers and hymns, and to a limited extent a married priesthood.<br \/>\nSome Anglicans have criticized the Vatican&#8217;s move as a blow to ecumenical relations.<br \/>\nOn Friday, however, Benedict insisted that the plan &#8220;is not in any way contrary to the ecumenical movement, but shows, instead, its ultimate purpose which consists in reaching full and visible communion of the disciples of the Lord.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn the same speech, which reviewed the congregation&#8217;s recent work on a number of matters, the pope also rejected charges that Catholic bioethical teachings, such as a ban on high-tech fertility treatments, pose an &#8220;obstacle to freedom and scientific research.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;In response to such attitudes, which tend to replace the truth with a fragile and easily manipulated consensus,&#8221; Benedict said, Christianity offers &#8220;morally trustworthy perspectives within which human reason can seek and find valid solutions&#8221; to ethical problems.<br \/>\n<em>&#8212; Francis X. 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