Catholic World News : Anglo-Catholic movement has ended, former Episcopal bishop says

Dallas, Aug. 10, 2007 (CWNews.com) - The "Catholic movement" among Anglicans has come to an end, a former Episcopalian bishop has told an Episcopalian news service.

Former Bishop Clarence Pope, who recently announced his return to the Roman Catholic Church, told the newsletter The Living Church that "political correctness" had triumphed over tradition within the Anglican communion.

"Without the stable center provided by the Holy See of Peter," Bishop Pope told The Living Church, "the Catholic movement within the church will ultimately die away." Even today, he said that Anglo-Catholic impulses were not producing more than "lots of 'catholic' vestments" in Episcopal circles.

Bishop Pope revealed that he had experienced regrets after entering the Catholic Church in 1995, then leaving to return temporarily to his Texas Episcopal diocese. He said that he had "drifted back" to the Episcopal fold in part because of severe depression brought on by treatment he was receiving for cancer at that time.

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