{"id":2589,"date":"2011-03-15T18:15:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2011\/03\/nearly-1000-anglicans-converti.php"},"modified":"2011-03-15T18:15:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:15:25","slug":"nearly-1000-anglicans-converti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/03\/nearly-1000-anglicans-converti","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 1,000 Anglicans Converting to Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (RNS\/ENInews) More than 900 Anglicans formally expressed a desire to convert to Catholicism at special services held at Westminster Cathedral &#8212; including the first Anglicans to join a new branch of the Catholic Church.<br \/>\nThe annual ceremonies held last weekend (March 12-13), included 62 adults who will become Catholics as part of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.<br \/>\nArchbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster, who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, presided.<br \/>\nThe &#8220;personal ordinariate&#8221; was set up by Pope Benedict XV1 as an extra-geographical body for Anglican converts who left over theological differences, including the consecration of women bishops.<br \/>\n&#8220;All will be `sent forth&#8217; by their bishops to prepare to be received into the church in parishes across the Diocese of Westminster at Easter 2011,&#8221; Eddie Tulasiewicz, of the Diocese of Westminster Communications Office, told ENInews.<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211; TREVOR GRUNDY<\/strong>, <em>Religion News Service<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (RNS\/ENInews) More than 900 Anglicans formally expressed a desire to convert to Catholicism at special services held at Westminster Cathedral &#8212; including the first Anglicans to join a new branch of the Catholic Church. 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