More Liberals Attempting to Downplay Anglican-Catholic Union and Salvage Their Failing Auto-destructive Policies.

Liberals in the world press, or perhaps, the liberal world press is attempting to downplay the significance of the reunion between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. They rightly fear that their policies, diminishing numbers and progressive views are becoming irrelevant in the face of successful ecumenical efforts on the part of a reformer Pope.

Jesuit priest and former editor of the controversial America Magazine, Father Reese SJ, makes some curious remarks in the wake at The Washington Post, wanting to downplay, in agreement with many parts of the secular press today, the momentous reunion of conservative Anglicans and Episcopalians with the Catholic Church. While he does talk about the reasons these conservatives are coming to the Catholic Church, he downplays these motivations and focuses on the desire of dissidents to see married clergy. Really, what he and many liberals fear is a further dilution of their diminishing numbers and impetus to change the Church's teaching through democratic reform.

Catholic liberals, especially Catholic feminists, fear that an influx of conservative Anglicans will further discourage reform in the Catholic Church. In any case, someone should warn these Anglicans that two out of three U.S. Catholics support the ordination of women. They will not find in Catholicism a controversy-free zone.

He proceeds then, to indicate that Traditional Anglicans will find some of the same problems they left behind. Unfortunately for him, it remains to be seen whether 2/3rds of the Catholic laity anywhere favor women's ordination. Where he gets those numbers from is anyone's guess, but we suspect it is merely wishful thinking.

More importantly, could married Roman Catholic men from the traditional dioceses join the Anglican ordinariate and become seminarians and priests? If so, we have just solved the priest shortage problem and within a generation there will be more priests in the Anglican ordinariates than in the traditional dioceses. The rest of the people will soon follow and the Anglican ordinariate will hold a majority of Roman Catholics.

In contrast to this unscientific citation, another poll brought to our attention by Father Z at his blog leads to Cincinnati Women's, and indicates overwhelming opposition to women's ordination.

National Public Radio has a long history of hostillity to the Catholic Church in its editorial policies which might have been dictated by the Devil himself.

This New Republic writer is glibly critical about the entire thing and finds a contradiction between allowing married Anglican priests and the current discipline existing for RC clergy in the Latin Rite. She doesn't seem to understand, or ignores, the fact that there already are married priests who are of the Anglican Tradition within the Catholic Church just as there are married priests in the Eastern Rites of the Church and have been since the Church was founded at the Pentecost in 33 A.D..

Baltimore Sun wants to keep the focus on the fact that there are many defections both ways and that there was, after all, one Church founded by Christ not to be confused with Anglican, Catholic or Protestant. Unfortunately, he's incorrect since the only one of those churches founded by Christ was the Catholic.

More from the Tablet. "Converts may choke on the raw meat of Catholicism"

These Liberals need to be informed of a fact so succinctly summed up by Diogenes at From the Mail that:

As your Uncle Di has pointed out before: the dissatisfied Anglican leaves because his Church ain't what she used to be. The dissatisfied Catholic leaves his Church because she is.