Tina Beattie underviser i ‘Katolske studier’ ved Roehampton University og svarer p\u00e5 sp\u00f8rsm\u00e5l om hvorfor enkelte engelske katolikker har reservasjonen overfor pave Benedikts gener\u00f8se tilbud til tradisjonelle anglikanere. Hun sa i g\u00e5r i et program p\u00e5 BBC Radio 4:<\/p>\n
… I don\u2019t want to call it a problem, but I think many of us are perplexed about what this means in terms of the Catholic Communion, and indeed obviously for relations between our two Churches. The Catholic Church has a unity that\u2019s not based on likemindedness or sameness, and it\u2019s very puzzling to know how this very homogenous, small group of likeminded people, offered a quasi-independent place within the Catholic Communion, is going to fit in and become part of us.<\/p>\n
And is your objection partly to do with the fact that you don\u2019t like what they stand for? Particularly on the question of women\u2019s role in the Church?<\/em><\/p>\n
I\u2019m not happy about that, no. …<\/p>\n
… shouldn\u2019t you just welcome them into your Church?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n
We should. And I think we\u2026<\/p>\n
You\u2019re not really doing that\u2026 You\u2019re saying you\u2019d rather not have them.<\/em><\/p>\n
That\u2019s why I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s a problem, I think we\u2019re perplexed. We don\u2019t know yet what this welcome means. If I go to a mass of the Ordinariate, is that..? Obviously it\u2019s part of the same Eucharistic Communion, but then, why does there need to be this separation? I welcome the riches of the Anglican liturgy coming into the Roman Catholic Church. There\u2019s a lot to celebrate. They can bring with them enormous wealth that maybe we\u2019ve lost in our rather more watered-down traditions. I think they\u2019ll find that the Roman Catholic Church is a lot less aesthetic in its worship than High Anglicanism. So, there\u2019s a big process of adjustment ahead, and of course we want them to do that. But I think many of us would feel happier if we were welcoming individuals, who\u2019d come in \u2013 I\u2019m a convert; I know what it feels like to make that change \u2013 if it was individuals coming in with a more open and positive attitude to why they were coming, maybe. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n