Recently, Pope Benedict approved a decree, under which Anglicans not happy with women priests and gay bishops will be allowed to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of their Anglican identity. While there are tangential advantages (discussed in this blog here), below is a handy list of some Catholic beliefs that defecting Anglicans must embrace in this process...
- Jesus prayed that his followers should be one. Catholics believe Christian unity under the authority of the Pope to be an imperative. He is infallible when “he proclaims by a definitive act a doctrine pertaining to faith or morals”.
- Women can never be ordained to the priesthood. Only a baptised man can validly receive ordination.
- Mary, the mother of Jesus, was conceived “immaculately”, which means she was protected from sin from birth.
- Homosexual acts are “contrary to the natural law . . . under no circumstances can they be approved”.
- Transubstantiation, or the doctrine that the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Christ.
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