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Article: Anglicans fleeing women priests will have to jump through hoops. (male Church of England priestly conversions to Catholicism)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 7, 1993
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OXFORD, England - Though ready to welcome into the Catholic fold all Anglicans distressed by the Nov. 11 synod vote in favor of the ordination of women, Cardinal Basil Hume, archbishop of Westminster, at an April 23 press conference appeared to draw back from his previous desire to make things "easy" for them (NCR, April 23).
Seated beneath a portrait of Pope John Paul II, who seemed to hover over his shoulder, Hume dashed the hopes of those who have been saying for months that up to a thousand Anglican priests would swim the Tiber "if the terms were right."
There were practically no "terms" on the offer that would enable Anglicans to move as a group. ...