ANGLICANS GO BACK TO ROME
Chris discusses a new story from the Catholic Herald, about Archbishop Justin Welby, the current Archbishop of Canterbury, who has said that he doesn’t mind if “Anglicans convert to Catholicism.” The article goes on to reveal that one in 10 Catholic priests in England and Wales were “former Anglican vicars.” The story is just the latest development in the ongoing Anglo-Catholic movement that can be traced back to the 19th century. The “Oxford movement” as it was originally called, was the aggressive attempt by Rome and her Jesuit priests to bring the Church of England back to the Pope. Nineteenth century Protestant author Walter Walsh published his popular work, “The Secret History of the Oxford movement” in which he warned that the Anglican churches in England were “honeycombed” with secret societies working to undermine the historic Protestant faith.