CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The head of the Vatican\u2019s doctrine office called on Anglican communities that have entered the U.S. Catholic Church to have courage in bringing their patrimony into the larger Catholic community.<\/p>\n\t\u201cBe courageous pioneers of communion, placing the diversity of your gifts at the service of the universal Church,\u201d Archbishop Gerhard M\u00fcller said on Feb. 2. \u201cThe distinctiveness of your traditions and manner of prayer and worship are no obstacle to true unity in the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe archbishop, who is the Prefect of the Vatican\u2019s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, spoke at St. Mary\u2019s Seminary in Houston, Texas, during a symposium on the mission of the U.S. ordinariate.<\/p>\n
\tErected Jan. 1, 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter is a special diocese-like structure that allows entire Anglican communities to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church while retaining certain elements of the liturgy and other customs.<\/p>\n
\tThe Holy Father had authorized the creation of ordinariates for Anglican communities seeking to enter the Catholic Church in his 2009 apostolic constitution, \u201cAnglicanorum Coetibus.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThere are currently two other ordinariates for former Anglicans: the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, which covers England and Wales and the Australia-based Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross.<\/p>\n
\tIn his talk, Archbishop M\u00fcller said that the ordinariates serve Christ\u2019s \u201cvision of unity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cIt can certainly be said that, in creating this new structure, the Holy Father was responding to a movement of the Holy Spirit,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is the Spirit that draws the disciples of the Lord together, fashioning them into the ecclesial Body of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tArchbishop M\u00fcller explained that the communion of the Catholic Church \u201cflows from the communion of the Blessed Trinity,\u201d and its unity is not based on uniformity.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cUniformity tends toward the elimination of those who do not conform or comply,\u201d he said. \u201cConversely, another way the world tries to achieve oneness is by simply overlooking or ignoring the differences that do exist, even to the point of allowing contradictory claims to truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tBut because the Church finds its unity in God, he noted, diversity in liturgical expressions, in some governance structures and in parish culture \u201cdoes not threaten ecclesial communion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe overarching structure which holds together these expressions is the faith of the Church, ever ancient and ever new, and expressed eloquently in the Catechism of the Catholic Church,\u201d the archbishop continued.<\/p>\n
\tTherefore, he said, the ordinariates\u2019 preservation of \u201cdistinctive Anglican liturgical and spiritual patrimony\u201d is \u201ca hallmark of their parochial life\u201d and \u201ca contribution to the vitality of the Catholic Church.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tArchbishop M\u00fcller told the ordinariate leadership that they have the \u201cdelicate but all-important task\u201d of preserving their communities\u2019 integrity while integrating them into \u201cthe larger Catholic community.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tHe stressed the need to foster a \u201cculture of communion\u201d with the bishops, the local dioceses and parishes, the Catholic faithful and \u201cthose still separated from the Church,\u201d an important task that requires \u201cwisdom, humility, and a firmness of intention to avoid divisiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe archbishop said that ordinariate communities will face \u201cscrutiny\u201d both from interested members of the Anglican Communion and from Catholics who \u201cwill want to know that you are here to stay, strengthening our ecclesial cohesion rather than setting yourselves apart as another divisive grouping within the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tHe noted that members of the ordinariate have displayed \u201cgreat courage\u201d in entering full communion with the Catholic Church, and he continued them to continue exercising such courage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\tAt the same time, he warned against taking a \u201cdefensive or contentious\u201d position towards Catholic Church authority, saying that \u201cunity is easily undermined by a culture of suspicion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe openness of the wider Catholic community to the rich Anglican patrimony which you bring will be encouraged when they experience in your communities the joyful and peaceful embrace of our common faith,\u201d the archbishop said.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cIn a world marked by division and discord, a culture of communion can be an especially eloquent witness to the truth of our faith and in fidelity to our Lord\u2019s prayer \u2018that they might be one.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\tArchbishop M\u00fcller also noted that the Holy Father has been heavily involved in the ordinariate, assuring its members that they \u201care very much in his thoughts and prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tOther featured speakers at the symposium were Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, D.C., who had served as the Vatican delegate for establishing the ordinariate, and Monsignor Steve Lopes, an official at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.<\/p>\n
\tMsgr. Jeffrey N. Steenson, who leads the ordinariate, also spoke, and Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston welcomed the attendees.<\/p>\n
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