Anglican leader, in Vatican City, downplays church strains: Dialogue back on track
Speaking in Vatican City a month after the Vatican unveiled plans to facilitate the conversion of conservative Anglicans to Catholicism, Arch bishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams offered a moderately hopeful assessment of ecumenical relations between the two churches.
The “ecumenical glass is genuinely half full,” he said on November 19 after his lecture at the Pontifical Gregorian University.