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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">via <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson" target="_blank">blogs.telegraph.co.uk Blog Listings</a> on 7/6/08</div><br>
<p>The Sunday Telegraph <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2254269/Anglican-bishops-in-secret-Vatican-summit.html" target="_blank">carries the news</a> that senior Church of England bishops have met the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to discuss the apocalyptic crisis in Anglicanism and the prospect of converting to Roman Catholicism.</p>
<p>I'm glad that Jonathan Wynne-Jones has respected the anonymity of the bishops in question. We at the <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/" target="_blank">Catholic Herald</a> have known for some time about these historic negotiations. I pray that they succeed.</p>
<p>What one of the bishops has made clear to us is that they are worried that the liberal English Catholic hierarchy will throw a spanner in the works. Yet I infer from Jonathan's report that the most liberal of all the bishops, Kieran Conry of Arundel and Brighton, is apparently prepared to countenance Anglican converts retaining some elements of their tradition. Has he had his arm twisted? </p>
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