Catholic/Anglican Reconciliation
Last week I was walking along somewhere in town when I saw an interesting headline on The Times front page. Churches back plan to unite under Pope Which got me to thinking about Carol Pope. But I thought that High School Confidential wasn't a big enough hit in Canterbury to really warrant this kind of sea change. And of course it couldn't really mean uniting the Catholic Churches under the Pope because, well, I'll just say 'Duh..' So I bought the paper. (a radical step in a city where approaching the station means getting a small Malaysian rain forest's worth of free newspapers. Most of the main papers have a 'Lite' version they chuck at you on the way in and out of the Tube.) And it turns out that some guess I had about the headline was right. Anglican and Catholic bishops have agreed to a plan in 42 pages that would re-unite the Anglican Communion (which is the least 'reformed' of all the Protestant denominations coming out of the Reformation...