[Apologetics] 3,000 Iraqis become Roman Catholics

[Stephen Korsman]

3,000 Iraqis become Roman
Catholics<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ukcorrespondents/holysmoke/may2008/3000-iraqis-become-roman-catholics.htm>
via Telegraph Blogs : UK : Holy
Smoke<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ukcorrespondents/holysmoke/>by
damian.thompson at telegraph.co.uk (Damian Thompson) on 5/23/08

Three thousand Iraqi Christians living in America have become Roman
Catholics together, in a deal with the Vatican that will spark the interest
of traditionalist Anglicans who want to convert en masse without losing
their cultural identity.

[image: An Iraqi Catholic boy looks on during Sunday prayers at the Saydet
al Najat Catholic church in Baghdad]
*How will the conversion of Iraqi Christians affect Anglo-Catholics?*

As Ed West reports in the Catholic
Herald<http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/articles/a0000286.shtml>,
a dissident congregation of the Assyrian Church of the East based in Ceres,
California, is following its bishop, Mar Bawai Soro, into the
Chaldean**Catholic
Church. That means it will keep its ancient Eastern-rite ceremonies, but
will recognise Pope Benedict XVI as Supreme Pastor.

Read more...<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ukcorrespondents/holysmoke/may2008/3000-iraqis-become-roman-catholics.htm>
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