It’s starting to look that way.

From Catholic Online’s Deacon Keith Fournier:

For many years I have been covering the stories of members of the Anglican Clergy who have been so deeply disappointed with the move away from orthodoxy within their own community. Among them are many who are being drawn by the beauty of the Catholic Church into full communion. I am particularly happy to cover their journey because I understand it so well. I am a “revert” myself, having wandered my way back into the fullness of Catholic faith as a young man in search of truth. Though I was baptized as a Catholic, I wandered, as do so many young people and had to find my way home. When I did, I found the One who is the Way, the Truth and the Life, Jesus Christ, with outstretched arms. As I followed Him, I discovered the simple but profound truth of the words first spoken by Cyprian and repeated for over two millennia: “Whoever has God for his Father has the Church for his mother”. The Church is the Body of Christ and discovering that truth – and then finding one’s place within her loving, sacramental communion – is that treasure in the field.

I have had the privilege of being a kind of “road sign” on the journey into full communion as it has been pursued by many close friends and fellow pilgrims. I rejoice as I see more on the way in these days of turmoil. In a world filled with instability, the solid rock of Peter is a true anchor. In an age given over to the emptiness of relativism the compass of the Magisterium, the teaching office of the Catholic Church, points true north. She invites all who seek to find their way into the clarity of communion with what St. Augustine called “the whole Christ”, the Church, to come. I call myself a “road sign” because I long ago discovered the deeper truth contained within the Lord’s admonition “You did not choose me but I chose you.” (John 15:16) I know that it is incredibly important to remember this truth. If this is the Lord’s Church than He alone is the One who draws men and women into her safe harbor.

I have also fallen in love with the legitimate diversity within the proper adherence to orthodoxy and orthopraxy within the one Church. I serve as both a Roman Catholic and a Byzantine Catholic Deacon. I am at home in the Divine Liturgy, the Latin Rite Liturgy (Ordinary or Extraordinary Rite) or even the Anglican use Liturgy now celebrated by many Anglicans who have walked the way of the Pastoral Provision set up by the late Servant of God John Paul II accompanied by their entire parish community. My own theological leanings are Eastern and I long for the day when the “two lungs”, both East and West, breathe together again in the One Church. I am a son of the Catholic Church and I am extremely happy to report some “good news” about her growth, her renewal and her important work in this new missionary age of the Third Millennium.

Reliable sources confirm that the ongoing dialogue between the Holy See and the Traditional Anglican Communion may soon bear wonderful and historic fruit in Church history. The reports I have read first circulated out of Australia, from reliable sources. Then they were carried on the dependable, refreshingly orthodox and ever insightful Web Blog “Creative Minority Report’. They are now confirmed by Damien Thompson of the London Telegraph in his “Holy Smoke” column which is a must read. Damien Thompson’s reporting is always reliable and so I set forth his account of this story breaking story below:

“The Pope is preparing to offer the Traditonal Anglican Communion, a group of half a million dissident Anglicans, its own personal prelature by Rome, according to reports this morning. History may be in the making”, reports The Record. “It appears Rome is on the brink of welcoming close to half a million members of the Traditional Anglican Communion into membership of the Roman Catholic Church. Such a move would be the most historic development in Anglican-Catholic relations in the last 500 years. But it may also be a prelude to a much greater influx of Anglicans waiting on the sidelines, pushed too far by the controversy surrounding the consecration of practicing homosexual bishops, women clergy and a host of other issues.”

Read the rest at the link.