Ottawa Citizen: Canadian Anglicans ask to join Catholic Church

Posted by Kendall Harmon

A group with three churches in the Ottawa area has taken up the Vatican's offer of a special legal structure enabling disillusioned Anglicans to return to Rome.

The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada -- a denomination already closely aligned with Catholic precepts -- is the first in Canada to approach the Vatican like this.

In November, the Holy See shocked the world by announcing it would allow Anglicans to become Catholic, yet keep their own liturgy, prayer books, and married clergy. It would form a separate set of rules for the group, much as it has done with Eastern Rite Catholics.

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