Vatican signals possible dialogue with new Anglican Communion

The Vatican has signaled it may be open to ecumenical dialogue with the new, conservative breakaway Global Anglican Communion, a move that would upend decades of Catholic-Anglican relations centered on the See of Canterbury, the English church’s historic “first among equals.” In a significant development first reported by the German Catholic outlet Katholisch, a top Vatican official publicly questioned who the Catholic Church’s official dialogue partner will be following the Anglican Communion’s recent historic split.