‘Little impact’ in Australia
by Muriel Porter Australia Correspondent
THE Vatican’s creation of an Apostolic Constitution to cater for disaffected Anglicans would not have much impact in Australia, said the Primate of Australia, Dr Phillip Aspinall, Archbishop of Brisbane.
Although there might be some Australian Anglicans who would make the move, the number would be small. The situation was quite different in Australia to that in England: the Anglo-Catholic wing was much bigger and stronger in the Church of England than it had been for some time in Australia, and the Church of England was at the height of the debate over women bishops. Australia had resolved that issue some years ago, and now had women bishops.
Those Anglo-Catholics who could not accept the ordination of women had already left the Anglican Church of Australia; so the invitation would be more likely to be accepted by former Anglicans than current Anglicans, Dr Aspinall said. |
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