Sharon Sheridan at the Episcopal News Service has produced a useful roundup of reactions within that church to news this week that the Vatican would make it easier for Anglicans to join the Roman Catholic Church.

"We appreciate the welcome the pope extended to those in the Anglican Communion who are disaffected," New York Bishop Suffragan Catherine Roskam tells Sheridan. "We for our part continue to welcome our Roman Catholic brothers and sisters, both lay and ordained, conservative and liberal, who wish to belong to a church that treasures diversity of thought."

"I watch with bemusement as Episcopalians leave our church to go to one that's much more rigid and exclusive," says Katie Sherrod, a former Roman Catholic who is a member of the executive council of the Diocese of Fort Worth. "I hope they find what they're looking for there, but I have a feeling that some of the people who might think this arrangement will be different are going to be in for a surprise."

Read the rest of the story at episcopal-life.org.