” “It is "positive" that the Catholic Church is interested in the fate of the Anglican Communion and appeals to the unity of the Church. This is the reply of rev. David Richardson, director of the Anglican Centre of Rome and the representative of the archbishop of Canterbury to the Holy See, to the criticisms of those who instead, within the Anglican Communion, had not liked the actions that had been lately taken by the representatives of the Vatican regarding the divisions the Communion was going through. A report presented in these terms and published by the news service of the Lambeth Conference refers to the words spoken during the WYD of Sydney by the Pope in support of the unity of the Anglican Communion and the speech given during the assembly by card. Ivan Dias about the "dangers of disunity for evangelisation". "My opinion in this respect says rev. Richardson is that there’s a great investment being made by the Roman Catholic Church for the cohesion of the Anglican Church and that there are many reasons behind such investment. The last thing they want to see is a structurally divided Church". (continued)
