Anglicans, do you see yourselves as more Protestant, or more Catholic?

Where did you come up with that number?? From what I've read, there are only a handful.

Thanks. That helps solve this problem or whatever we'd call it.

The article is from a Catholic publication. The Catholic press really played up this idea up when it first broke. At the time, no one could tell how much of an impact it would have. Note the spring, 2010 date. Very preliminary to say the least. Yet the beginning of the article speaks of the Anglican Church in America already joined the RCC as a body. It didn't happen.

The round figure of 100 was optimistically used by the Anglican archbishop of the Anglican Church in America when he thought he could take the whole of that church into the Roman Catholic Church, plus a guess that couple dozen other parishes from TEC or some other Continuing Anglican church would go along, too.

And, in a way, I don't fault him for that because for at least three years he had been talking about it as a done deal. The people of the church apparently didn't protest that but did intend to wait to see what the new proposal would actually turn out to be. It turned out to be far less than what they'd been told it would be, and most of these "High Church" Anglicans responded by making it clear, along with their bishops, that although they consider themselves to be catholic, they still intended to remain Anglican.

As it turned out, only one diocesan bishop decided to go along with the proposal, with a few parishes, but I believe all or most of them still are waiting to see if Rome will accept them.

Thanks. That helps solve this problem or whatever we'd call it.

The article is from a Catholic publication. The Catholic press really played up this idea up when it first broke. At the time, no one could tell how much of an impact it would have. Note the spring, 2010 date. Very preliminary to say the least. Yet the beginning of the article speaks of the Anglican Church in America already joined the RCC as a body. It didn't happen.

The round figure of 100 was optimistically used by the Anglican archbishop of the Anglican Church in America when he thought he could take the whole of that church into the Roman Catholic Church, plus a guess that couple dozen other parishes from TEC or some other Continuing Anglican church would go along, too.

And, in a way, I don't fault him for that because for at least three years he had been talking about it as a done deal. The people of the church apparently didn't protest that but did intend to wait to see what the new proposal would actually turn out to be. It turned out to be far less than what they'd been told it would be, and most of these "High Church" Anglicans responded by making it clear, along with their bishops, that although they consider themselves to be catholic, they still intended to remain Anglican.

As it turned out, only one diocesan bishop decided to go along with the proposal, with a few parishes, but I believe all or most of them still are waiting to see if Rome will accept them.

Some people were cautious, remembering the disappointing way that the Anglican Use parishes worked out, and knowing that Rome was not about to view this as a coming together of equals. But what the membership was told in church publications was that it was a done deal and would be something close to Uniate status. I read one article saying that all that would be required was to affirm the Pope and the Catechism, and nothing else would change for them.