THE AQUINAS THURSday, APRIL 14, 2011 13 Andrew Milewski Faith Editor Amanda Murphy Faith Co-Editor Speaker discusses conversion of Anglicans to Catholicism out that even though the Catho- ample, the priest celebrates Mass BY W. RYAN SCHuster lic Church contains a diversity facing east. However, the basis of Staff Member of liturgical traditions, found in the Anglican Mass is the Book of the Roman and Byzantine Rites, Common Prayer, originally pub- On Wednesday, April 5 in the there is an underlying unity of lished in 1549, so the language is Heritage Room in the library, the belief and doctrine. The Episcopal not Latin, but sixteenth-century Catholic Studies Program hosted Church is the complete opposite: English. Also common to the An- Father Eric Bergman as a speak- he explained that while two high glican tradition is the use of many er in the Catholic Lecture Series. churches may celebrate the same beautiful and traditional hymns. The lecture focused on the recent exact liturgy on a given Sunday, The Apostolic Constitution and ongoing conversion of large they may be preaching complete- contains provisions for Anglican groups of members of the Angli- ly opposite doctrines, particularly deacons, priests and bishops who can Church, or Church of England, with regard to morality. Trends choose to convert to Catholicism. to the Roman Catholic Church. Fr. in his Church contradicted what Subject to approval from the lo- Bergman, himself a former Angli- Fr. Bergman felt to be consistent cal bishop, converted clergy may can priest who converted and was with the teachings of Christ, for be accepted as candidates for ordained in the Catholic Church, example Anglican acceptance of Holy Orders. The Anglican Com- described the frustrations many artificial contraception and abor- munion permits married clergy, Anglicans experience today and tion and the ordination of women and a Pastoral Provision issued the current and proposed struc- and openly homosexual clergy. by Pope John Paul II in 1980 es- tures for bringing them into com- This became a primary catalyst tablished protocol to ordain mar- munion with Rome. for his conversion to Catholicism. ried Anglicans as Catholic priests. After opening remarks from On Dec. 31, 2004, Fr. Bergman Married converts may apply for history department faculty mem- renounced his orders in the Epis- a papal dispensation from the re- ber Dr. Robert Shaffern, Fr. Berg- copal Church, citing what he con- quirement of clerical celibacy, but man began by describing the cur- sidered a “flawed orientation” in those who are not currently mar- rent state of the Anglican Church. the Anglican Communion as the ried must remain celibate. Known in the United States as the impetus for his decision. Fr. Berg- Fr. Bergman, who is married Episcopal Church, the Anglican man received Holy Communion and has six children, was accept- Church resulted from King Henry and Confirmation and was initi- COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA ed as a candidate for Holy Orders VIII’s split from the Roman Catho- ated into the Catholic Church as IN CANTERBURY, England stands a statue of Richard and ordained a Roman Catholic lic Church in 1534. Although main- a layman Oct. 31, 2005 by former Hooker, one of the most influential figures in shaping priest April 21, 2007. He currently taining many Catholic beliefs and Bishop of Scranton Joseph Mar- Anglican theology and self-identity. serves as the Executive Director practices, the Church of England tino. A small group of Fr. Berg- of the St. Thomas More Society, rejects the Pope as its spiritual man’s Episcopalian parishioners Church in a corporate manner.” cal Roman bishop. Fr. Bergman a group formed to enact John authority, instead turning to the converted with him. In other words, this document es- compared this structure to that Paul II’s Pastoral Provision and Archbishop of Canterbury and Stories like Fr. Bergman’s have tablishes means for the initiation in place for the Byzantine Rite Anglicanorum Coetibus in the the British monarch. Fr. Bergman become increasingly common in into the Catholic Church of entire churches, which have their own Diocese of Scranton. The group drew a distinction in the modern the past few years, particularly groups of Episcopalians. This will legitimate bishops. is comprised of Anglican con- Anglican Church between “high in the wake of Pope Benedict occur by means of establishing an Anglicanorum Coetibus also verts, and is headquartered at St. churches,” which adhere closer to XVI’s 2009 Apostolic Constitution Ordinariate, or group of former declares that converted Anglicans Clare Catholic Church, where Fr. traditional Catholicism, and “low Anglicanorum Coetibus, which Anglicans in communion with the will be allowed to celebrate the Bergman celebrates the Anglican churches,” which more closely “provides the general normative Catholic Church, which is roughly liturgy in their Anglican tradi- Mass ev+ery Sunday at 10 a.m. resemble Evangelical Protestant structure for regulating the insti- equivalent to a diocese of Roman tion, subject to Church approval. Fr. Bergman expressed the hope services. tution and life of Personal Ordi- Catholics. These Ordinariates will The Anglican Mass, or Sarum that through the work of the St. Yet, even within his high nariates for those Anglican faith- be headed by an Ordinary who Use of the Roman Rite, resembles Thomas More Society, Anglicans church tradition, Fr. Bergman no- ful who desire to enter into the has independent jurisdiction of the Catholic Tridentine, or Latin, may find a welcoming and com- ticed inconsistency. He pointed full communion of the Catholic but works closely with the lo- Mass in certain respects, for ex- fortable way to “come home.” Eucharist Egypt's hard-line Islamists speak up, creating unease Sunday Mass Daily Mass Madonna della Strada Chapel Chapel of the Sacred Heart BY HANNAH ALLAM maybe we should be concerned.’” tion’s longtime stance of boycot- 11:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. Mo n day—F riday MCT Campus Now the possibility that Salafis ting elections to focus on religious 12:05 p.m. & 4:40 p.m. may enter Egypt’s mainstream outreach. Some critics argue that (no 4:40 p.m. on Thursdays) ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — At 2 politics is raising concern that their the Salafis are too intolerant and Saturdays 12:05 p.m. a.m. on a tense night just before beliefs could one day become a politically immature to pose much Reconciliation Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak dominating force in life, something of a threat at the polls, but other was toppled, Yehia el-Sherif and that U.S. diplomats have been con- Egyptian activists fear that the Lenten Reconciliation Confessions Available other members of his ad-hoc neigh- cerned about for at least two years. Salafis are aligning themselves Service M-F @11:30 a.m. in Madonna della Strada Chapel Chapel of the Sacred Heart borhood watch group noticed a car “Increasingly, Egyptian politi- with the more moderate Muslim Wednesday, April 13th Or by appointment in University carrying two men with long beards cal elites are uneasy about the ris- Brotherhood, and that that alli- 7:30 p.m. Min ist rie s o r at C ampio n Ha ll approach their checkpoint in the ing popular resonance of Salafis, ance will steamroll the disorga- port city of Alexandria. The watch- concerned that, although the nized youth groups and liberals Holy Grounds Morning Prayer men didn’t order the car to stop. Egyptian groups do not currently in fall parliamentary elections, re- Thursday Mornings 7:45 - 8:15 a.m. The men inside turned off the advocate violence, their extreme sulting in an Islamist victory. O ff ice o f Unive rs ity Min ist rie s - DeNaples 200 engine, offered a vehicle search interpretation of Islam creates an That’s the U.S. government’s Bring your coffee or tea! and presented their ID cards with- environment where susceptibility nightmare scenario: an Islamist- Stations of the Cross out prompting, Sherif, a 21-year-old to radicalism and jihadi ideas is dominated government ruling the Chapel of the Sacred Heart college student, recalled. After the heightened,” a U.S. diplomat wrote Arab world’s most populous nation, Thursdays during Lent at 4:40 p.m. (except March 24th) search, the bearded men passed in a cable to the State Department one that is a neighbor and peace out pamphlets espousing the rigid that’s among the cache obtained by partner to Israel and the keeper of The Examen Prayer Fr. Rick’s Faith Flicks ideology of the Salafis, an ultracon- the WikiLeaks web site. the strategically vital Suez Canal. Thursday Evenings at 10:00 p.m. Chapel of the Sacred Heart servative branch of Islam whose Until the movement that top- It’s one that alarms pro-democracy Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. in Condron 102 (except March 24th) See “University Events” @ literalist interpretations are anathe- pled Mubarak, Salafis assiduously activists in Cairo, too. They point my.scranton for titles ma to Muslim moderates and liber- avoided involvement in the world to the results of the recent refer- als. The car sped off into the night, of secular politics. But as the anti- endum on revising the constitu- Lent at the Lake leaving Sherif and his neighbors Mubarak demonstrations unfolded, tion of what can happen in an “Is- Wednesday Evening, March 30th at Chapman Lake slack-jawed as they realized the young Salafis, with their bushy lamists vs. Everyone Else” political Look for more details coming soon!!! Salafis had engineered the episode beards and full facial veils, became climate. The Salafis campaigned in as a chance to proselytize. conspicuous among other activists tandem with the Muslim Brother- GIVE this Lent! They were driving the dark and in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, despite the hood in poor neighborhoods with See the Community Outreach Office webpage for a complete list of menacing streets to spread the the ways you can give through service opportunities this Lent! reluctance of their clerics to sup- religious populations, pitching a message that Islam was the only port the protests.