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Article: Anglican orders as bones of contention; conference glitch shows ecumenism still adrift.(Conference on Apostolicae Curae at the General Theological Seminary)(Column)
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- April 28, 1995
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John Henry Newman joined the Roman Catholic church in 1845. The leading spirit of the Oxford movement, he had received Anglican orders in 1824. When he entered the Vatican's College of Propaganda, the seminary for students from mission countries, he stated that he would have "difficulty" about being reordained. "I could not say that Anglican orders were invalid," he wrote.
Newman was a big catch for a church that had lost England over the validity of another sacrament, Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. So Newman's concerns were set aside with the assurance that, although ordination would not be explicitly conditional, the "condition" would be "implied in ...