Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Polish National Catholic Church Involved in Continuum Unity Discussions

This may be old news to Continuing Anglicans, but the Polish National Catholic Church (PNCC) and several U. S. Anglo-Catholic entities are discussing ways to expand unity among non-papal catholics.  Two meetings early this year are parts of this effort.
Last month, bishops of the Anglican Joint Synod “G-4” Churches (Remember that these are four continuing Anglican jurisdictions that in October 2017 entered into full communion and agreed to seek “full, institutional, and organic union with each other.”) met with bishops from the PNCC.  This “Dialogue” included communion according to the PNCC rite.  Another meeting is planned in June.
Next month, the Prime Bishop of the PNCC, Anthony Mikovsky, will speak to the Synod of the ACNA Missionary Diocese of All Saints as that Anglo-Catholic diocese continues to seek a future home in or out of ACNA.
I am not privy to any discussions and will refrain from speculation for now.  But it is clear that continuing Anglicans getting their act together (quite literally) and becoming much more unified may be bearing fruit of still further unity among catholics.  Surely there being less of an “alphabet soup” to deal with made unity discussions more attractive to the Polish National Catholics.  Their involvement in an interesting and encouraging development at the very least. 

1 comment:

CanonJohn3+ said...

Anglo-Catholics have no reason to remain in the ACNA given recent developments. The Anglican Continuum (ACC,ACA, Diocese of The Holy Cross, APCK and APA) has been building bridges and the PNCC would be a welcome addition.