Anglicanorum Coetibus and the Roman Rite

Today seemed to have a number of articles on the Catholic websites that caught my attention.  Rome clarifying that altar girls are prohibited from serving at the altar in the Extraordinary Form, changes towards a desire for more traditional types of Church architecture, and finally an article here describing what long-term effects Anglicanorum Coetibus would have on the Latin Church. 

Anglicanorum Coetibus is the recently released Apostolic Constitution offering a means of corporate union with a large number of people hailing from the ever dysfunctional Anglican Communion, or one of a number of independent Anglo-Catholic groups.  You see, to make a long story short, the ritualism of the Oxford Movement, a period in the 19th century where High-Church Anglicans rediscovered aspects of Catholic ritual, gave way to what is today referred to as "Anglo-Catholics;" Anglicans who essentially use the forms and rites of the Catholic Church (or modified versions), even possibly sharing some of her beliefs, while still maintaining essential tenants of Anglicanism.  This has resulted in either practicing the Book of Common Prayer using Catholic vestments and rituals, using the Roman Rite wholesale (either the 1962 or 2002 Missale Romanum), or writing a hybrid of the Book of Common Prayer and the Missale Romanum, resulting in the Anglican Missal or the English Missal. 

But this is sort of the background of the Anglo-Catholicism.  Many Anglo-Catholics have become disenchanted with the rest of the Anglican Communion over recent novelties such as ordination of women and homosexuals to the priesthood or as bishops.  What this Apostolic Constitution does is provide for a mechanism for a large number (think whole parishes) of Anglicans (this includes Episcopalians) to enter the Catholic Church in a way that allows them to retain some Anglican features.  Something similar has been done a few times in the US for a few Episcopalian churches under Pope John Paul II's Pastoral Provision, and the Anglican Use of the Roman Rite, resulting in the Book of Divine Worship was the resulting Liturgy of these parishes. 

Now the Book of Divine Worship draws from the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite and the 1928 Book of Common Prayer for the American Episcopal Church.  Essentially, in agreement with the article mentioned earlier, this book and Anglicanorum Coetibus have resulted in the irony of Thomas Cranmer's liturgy, the one that John Wesley praised, has effectively been "Catholicized" and become an authentic expression of the Roman Rite.  The Church, therefore is acting according to St. Paul's exhortation to test all everything and retain what is good (1 Thessalonians 5:21).