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Father and son priests convert to Roman Catholic Church

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    Monumental moment for Anglican and Roman Catholic Church

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The smiles are but a small glimpse into this monumental.

Moment in history for the Anglican and Vatican church.

But we've been divided since Henry and -- You know that's that's that argument one.

Father and son shock half the third and Ford are both former episcopal priests.

But by Saturday.

They'll make -- historic conversion to the Roman Catholic Church.

Make it happen boat went back to seminary for fourteen we it was.

Focused on.

Our former seminary work are masters of divinity work and what was lacking.

In it when it comes to the capture.

The -- are among thirty Anglican priests nationwide taking this historic step they describe it.

And the reunification.

That's actually been in the works for centuries.

But since the early.

Eighteen hundreds decades of work in dialogue.

And ecumenical.

Meetings and trying to.

For the Catholic Church reaching now to the Church of England to try to to to help bring it back into in the union.

It's all possible under a new structure Catholic Church created by Pope Benedict the sixteenth.

Equivalent to a national diocese which is based in Houston it welcomes -- episcopal priests with families like the -- But unmarried Anglican priests who follow will not be allowed to marry -- wrong.

A historic shift and reunion among two denominations.

Whose doctrines.

Have long shared more similarities.

And differences.

Were the generation.

That is doing it it's it's -- -- it's miraculous ones.

Dion -- Fox 4 News.