我们与我在牛津的朋友萨拉.梅特兰以及她的丈夫唐纳德.李共度圣诞节。 唐纳德.李是一个美国人，他成了一位英国国教会神父。
We spent Christmas Day with my friend from Oxford, Sara Maitland, and her husband, Donald Lee, an American who had become a priest in the Church of England.
如果教皇的倡议倡议获得成功，英国教会将进一步削弱并陷入到更大的混乱中。
If the Pope's initiative succeeds, the Church of England will be further weakened and plunged into even greater disarray.
这有可能说服梵蒂冈采取行动：必须决定怎样面对那些认为英国教会将会取消他们现有地位的保守人士。
That may have persuaded the Vatican to act: it had to decide how to respond to conservatives who felt the Church of England was about to make their position untenable.
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