Traditional Anglicans Accept Pope's Offer, Will Convert

Members of the "Traditional Anglican Communion" (TAC) in the U.S. will convert to the Catholic Church, according to their press release which states that "the decision was made formally to request the implementation of the provisions of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum cœtibus in the United States of America by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith."

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More good news: Anglican 'bishop' converts

A retired Anglican 'bishop'*, Paul Richardson, has been received into the Catholic Church. The new convert said it was "like coming home".

[* Reminder: Anglican 'clergy' are not true priests - their orders have been ruled invalid by the Church: "Wherefore, strictly adhering, in this matter, to the decrees of the pontiffs, our predecessors, and confirming them most fully, and, as it were, renewing them by our authority, of our own initiative and certain knowledge, we pronounce and declare that ordinations carried out according to the Anglican rite have been, and are, absolutely null and utterly void." (Pope Leo XIII, "Apostolicae Curae", 1896 A.D., emphasis added)]

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Gingrich’s Conversion

It is expected that Newt Gingrich will soon convert to Catholicism. It is not yet clear how his marital situation will be resolved as he is on his 'third marriage'. Of course, for his current arrangement to be a valid marriage - among other things - it would require that both his previous unions be invalid (i.e. not true marriages) and require that she also have no previous valid marriage. It is also not clear how he could be welcomed into the Church if he persisted in a gravely sinful situation (e.g. if either of his first two 'marriages' were deemed valid but yet he remained with his current 'wife'). His 'current wife' already professes to be Catholic. [3/10]