About 2,000 Canadian members of a breakaway Anglican group in Toronto have accepted the Vatican's invitation to join the Roman Catholic Church, the Ethics Daily website reports today (March 23, 2010).
The agreement will allow members of the Anglican Church of Canada to keep their liturgy and have their own bishops, but acknowledge the pope's supremacy.
The Canadian announcement comes weeks after a similar move by traditional Anglicans in the United States.
Meeting in Orlando, Florida earlier this month, the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America (ACA) voted to take up the offer made by Pope Benedict XVI in October 2009 that permits disaffected congregations to defect to Rome, while keeping many of their Anglican traditions, including married priests.
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