The Rise of Anglo-Catholicism

By |2020-02-15T22:03:03-06:00February 15th, 2020|Categories: Anglicanism, Catholicism, Christianity, Culture, History, Religion, Theology|

On November 4, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI issued an Apostolic Constitution, Anglicanorum Coetibus, in response to “groups of Anglicans” who had petitioned “repeatedly and insistently to be received into full Catholic communion individually as well as corporately,” which created for them a new ecclesiastical structure: the Personal Ordinariates. The stated purpose of these was “to [...]