Expert: Fr. Michael - 12/9/2009

Question
Father, what is the correct analysis have of Pope Benedict XVI's Anglicanorum Coetibus ( Providing for Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans Entering Into Full Communion With The Catholic Church )?

Answer
I like the TRADITIO Traditional Roman Catholic Network's analysis:

When Italian media outlets exposed heated disagreements among Benedict-Ratzinger's Newcuria over the Anglican sellout, the embarrassment for Newpope was too great. He rushed out, on November 9, 2009, an unfinished Apostolic Constitution entitled Anglicanorum coetibus. This document is full of ironies, but we will point out just three:

The first irony is that Newpope bungled it again: although the title is in Latin, the official Latin version has still not been released, only a couple of versions in vulgar tongues, which are, under canon law, unofficial, and have no legal value.

The second irony is that Benedict-Ratzinger has implicitly approved an invalid service, as the "Anglican tradition" that he wants to "grandfather" into his Novus Ordo sect was declared invalid by Pope Leo XIII in 1896. Benedict-Ratzinger's Constitution explicitly provides that the Anglicans can use "the [invalid] liturgical books proper to the Anglican tradition."

The third irony is that Newchurch had to put out deceptive information. When Italian media outlets exposed the Newcuria's disagreements about imposing the traditional celibacy on converting Anglican ministers, Benedict-Ratzinger's spokesmen denied those disagreements and affirmed that the absolute requirement would not be altered. You even see that statement made in much of the secular and Neocon press. But in the document, it is -- even to the extent of allowing married bishops, of which there are none in Newchurch, even in its Eastern rites. Affirming the Apostolic requirement of celibacy would have soured the "deal," as many Anglican ministers and bishops are not celibate.

What this move on the part of Benedict-Ratzinger to allow Anglicans to move from their New Order sect to his will have on "oecumenical" talks with the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury remains to be seen. After all, the Constitution provides that the Anglicans must accept the Modernistic/heretical Catechism of the Catholic [Sic] Church of 1983 as the "authoritative expression" of the Faith, an expression that the Anglicans rightly reject. Benedict-Ratzinger may well have shot himself in the foot on this one -- as he already did with the Mohammedans, the Jews, and the Lutherans.