Carey to Visit Pope in Rome
Episcopal News Service. July 25, 1996 [96-1532E]
(ACNS) The Anglican Communion News Service recently announced that Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey will visit Pope John Paul II from December 3-5, 1996. During the visit, Carey will meet with the Pope on three or four occasions, one of which will be for a private conversation. Carey met with the Pope once before, during his visit to the Italian Church in 1992, which took place after the Vatican had disappointed many by its response to the findings of the first Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC I) and six months before the General Synod voted in favor of women priests. Dr. Richard Marsh, Carey's ecumenical secretary, said that "some of the difficulties we have encountered in talks with Rome have in fact helped us to work out what is authentically Anglican. We can now go and talk with our Roman Catholic brethren openly and honestly."