How are relations with the Anglican Communion?
Bishop Farrell: As everyone knows, this past year has been particularly intense in this area. The first visit of the new archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, to the Pope was greatly successful in consolidating the special nature of Anglican-Catholic relations and in laying the ground for even more frequent and “almost institutional” contacts. However, the internal difficulties of the Anglican Communion could not but have serious consequences on ecumenical relations. Now the Anglican Communion must clarify how it intends to hold together as a Communion. Our theological dialogue will continue, but the other official instrument of Anglican-Catholic dialogue [the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission, or IARCCUM] will not meet as a body, but will work through a special subcommission to harvest from already agreed-upon statements the ecclesiological principles that might be of help at this time. As you see, far from weakening our dialogue, this time
