Anglican Influx Exposes Conciliar Church’s Apostasy
The Catholic News Agency portal (November 21, 2025) reports that one-third of “ordinations” in England since 1992 involve former Anglican clergy, with approximately 700 converts including 16 “bishops.” The article attributes this phenomenon to the Anglican Church’s acceptance of female “ordination” and Benedict XVI’s 2010 establishment of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. “Cardinal” Vincent Nichols praises these conversions as preserving “rich Anglican heritage” while entering “full communion.” This celebration of ecclesial promiscuity reveals the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of Catholic ecclesiology.
Violation of Divine Law on Holy Orders
The report boasts that “16 former Anglican bishops” received “ordination” as Catholic priests. This contradicts the infallible teaching of Pope Leo XIII’s Apostolicae Curae (1896), which declared Anglican orders “absolutely null and utterly void.” The document established that Anglican rites lacked proper form and intention to confer sacramental character. As the Pope decreed: “Ordinations performed according to the Anglican rite have been and are entirely invalid.” The conciliar sect’s acceptance of these pseudo-clerics constitutes sacrilege, reducing Holy Orders to theatrical pantomime.
“They’ve looked at British Christianity from both sides now.”
This flippant remark by Stephen Bullivant exposes the relativistic mindset governing these conversions. True Catholicism recognizes no “sides” – only the Una Sancta outside which there is no salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus). Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned the proposition that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18). The notion that Anglican clergy bring “substantial ongoing contribution to Catholic life” mocks the Depositum Fidei, as their theological formation springs from heresy condemned by three centuries of papal decrees.
Ecumenism Replaces Conversion
The Personal Ordinariate exemplifies the conciliar heresy of religious indifferentism condemned in Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos: “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it.” Yet “Cardinal” Nichols claims converts experience “not so much a turning away… but an imperative to move into full visible communion.” This semantic trickery disguises apostasy – for authentic conversion requires abjuration of false doctrines, not preservation of “heritage.” The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 2314) mandated converts from heresy to abjure errors publicly, a requirement systematically ignored in the conciliar sect.
Benedict XVI’s Anglicanorum Coetibus constitutes formal cooperation with heresy by permitting retention of Anglican liturgical customs. As the Syllabus warned: “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” (Error 24). The establishment of parallel ecclesial structures for heretics violates the Church’s divine constitution, which demands unity in faith, worship, and governance. This institutionalized schism fulfills Pius X’s prophecy in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “Modernists substitute for the divine authority a conscience and a research governed by purely human norms.”
Sacramental Simulation and Invalidity
The report’s reference to “ordination” of converts ignores the crisis of validity in post-conciliar rites. Paul VI’s Ordo Missae and subsequent ordination rites altered essential form and intention, rendering their sacraments doubtful at best. Traditional priests ordained before 1968 constitute the sole remaining link to apostolic succession. As Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis established, any deviation from prescribed matter and form invalidates the sacrament. The mass influx of Anglican pseudo-clerics – themselves products of invalid orders – compounds the conciliar sect’s sacramental bankruptcy, creating a self-perpetuating cycle of simulation.
Symptom of Conciliar Apostasy
This phenomenon confirms the conciliar sect’s identity as the “abomination of desolation” foretold in Daniel 9:27. The report celebrates 1992 and 2010 as watershed moments – precisely when the Anglican and conciliar churches accelerated their apostasies. The female “ordination” heretics fled resembles rats abandoning a sinking ship only to board another doomed vessel. As Our Lord warned: “If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the pit” (Matthew 15:14). The 36-year “experiment” of Anglicanorum Coetibus has produced neither sanctity nor orthodoxy, only liturgical hybridism and doctrinal confusion.
The silence regarding converts’ abjuration of Anglican errors speaks volumes. No mention is made of renouncing the 39 Articles’ denial of transubstantiation, rejection of papal supremacy, or repudiation of sacramental confession – all heresies requiring public recantation. This omission reveals the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Christ’s mandate to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19), instead embracing the false ecumenism condemned in Mortalium Animos: “They presuppose the erroneous view that all religions are more or less good and praiseworthy.”
Conclusion: Shepherds Leading Sheep to Slaughter
These statistics expose the conciliar sect as a haven for apostates rather than the One True Church. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” By contrast, the Anglican influx brings doctrinal anarchy, sacramental uncertainty, and liturgical novelty. This report inadvertently documents the conciliar sect’s final transformation into the “great harlot” of Revelation 17:1 – a counterfeit bride embracing all heresies while persecuting the faithful remnant who cling to the Eternal Rome of Pius X and his predecessors.
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One-third of recent Catholic priests in England are Anglican converts, report shows (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 21.11.2025