Until there is such clarity, there will be no unity among those of us who like to think of ourselves as Catholic and Anglican Churchmen. There will be no unity because you cannot be a pure cup of water in a dirty puddle. That is the simple, basic message of the Continuing Church to the neo-Anglicans. You have gone a very long way down a very wrong path, and that is true even if all the time you were avoiding a still worse path. You have a journey home to make, things to unlearn and to remember and recover. We want to welcome you at home. But there can be no restored communion with us without hard decisions and firm actions from you.
Source: Anglican Catholic Church Archbishop Mark Haverland’s Sermon at ICCA
I remember talking with a bishop who attended ICCA 2015, and this presentation stuck out as singularly off-putting –especially to the international bishops– to most of those present, that “home” was to be the Anglican Catholic Church for all the other Anglo-Catholics, and ACC was setting the terms. It appeared a public assertion that everyone in the room had strayed from the way, but could be welcomed into ACC. Two years after this, the continuing groups began the “joint synods” called the G4. In 2021, DHC was absorbed into ACC, making it G3. So it did work, but just for other continuing groups. Those outside the 1979 secession from the Episcopal church remain, apparently, part of a dirty puddle.