Anglicans, RCs "Growing Together in Unity and Mission"

[...] It is yet possible that Dr Rowan Williams, in putting the Gospel mandate for unity before or else including his own one-time liberalism on the gay issue, met yet triumph. And then I think it relevant to ask, where next? Could it be that this mild-mannered Archbishop has a mission for unity which reaches far beyond the Anglican shores and its 78 million adherents? I ask this, having just read and written about the first agreed statement from Iarccum, the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission. The 42-page report is called Growing Together in Unity and Mission. It is not available online yet as it is still being considered by the Vatican. I've reproduced a few pars below. As ecumenical reports go, it is something of a stunner. It cuts through the theology (as in Arcic) to get to the practical meat, or should I say bread and wine, of communion. And wouldn't that be something for Rowan Williams, who had one of his senior staff members, Canon Jonathan Gough, on the commission, to be remembered for. Could he be the man who not only keeps the Anglicans together, but brings Anglicans and Catholics back together after a 400-year-split? It does make me wonder. Read more