Archbishop Bernard Longley is to be the Catholic co-chair of the third ARCIC, or Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission. This is significant because of Archbishop Longley's record as a conservative. Coming in the context of the Ordinariate being launched at about the same time the third series of ARCIC talks will be announced, it shows that Rome is taking dialogue with the Anglicans more seriously than ever in light of recent developments. In other words, the Ordinariate is not a poaching exercise, but a further step along the road in the process overseen by ARCIC.
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