Anglicans in the Ambulatory!!!
This week, a number of Traditionalist Anglican clergy and their Bishop (of Fulham), are on retreat in Rome. They were invited by the clergy in charge of St. John in Lateran to hold a mass in the "choir" of the cathedral, behind the main altar of the church. What to many Christians might seem a point of fraternal generosity or a sign of mutual respect; has instead inflamed the passions of a number of Roman Catholic churchmen and laymen across the Christian world. How dare those silly protestants hold their service in our church??? The claim that is referenced in defending such position, is the old argument that because Pope Leo XIII issued the Papal Bull Apostolicae Curae which claimed Anglican Orders as "utterly null and void"; that this means definitively that Anglican Apostolic succession is indeed null and void. Unfortunately for my more conservative minded Roman Catholic friends, a Papal Bull is not the law of the church. There ...