Anglicans knock on Rome’s door
Ronald Knox, born into an Anglican family in Leicestershire, England, 
converted to the Roman Catholic faith in 1917, four years after being ordained in the Church of England. Two years later he was ordained a Catholic priest.
He soon found his new church didn’t know quite what to do with him or other converts like him. He famously observed:
“We’re like a bird who has got into a room where there is a cocktail party. Everyone is delighted we’re there, but no one knows what to do with us.”
Not much has changed since then, or so I would have said before hearing the recent news about the Anglican Apostolic Constitution.
Just last month, in fact, the National Catholic Register offered an article titled The Convert Clergy Conundrum. Telling the story of “Tom,” a former minister — whose story is a compilation of various Christian ministers/priests who crossed the Tiber — the article begins,
…..He…
