Anglicans welcome offer from Rome

The BBC reports on reactions to the publication of the Apostolic Constitution. As is usual in the secular media, there are errors, some of fact and some of emphasis, but overall, this is a decent report.

November 10, 2009
By Robert Pigott

The Vatican has published details of its plan to ease conversion for Church of England clergy unhappy about the ordination of women bishops.

The proposal offers them what amounts to their own dioceses within the Roman Catholic Church.

The Vatican also said they could continue with Anglican traditions, such as some church services.

Anglican clergy claim the rules set out in the document make the offer seem more generous than it first seemed...

Read the rest on the web site of the BBC.