The Vatican's overture to disaffected Angelicans

The Roman Catholic Church outstretched its hand to Angelicans disgruntled by liberal trends in their own church. The Vatican is saying to these Angelicans, "Join our ranks, and you can keep some of your distinctive spiritual traditions."
There are about 80 million Angelicans the world over, though no one is sure how many have been turned off by the ordination of women as priests and bishops and, in some regions, the ordination of gays. However, a breakaway network calling itself "Traditional Angelican Communion" says it has about 400,000 members. Perhaps 5,000 or more of the 2.2 million Episcopalians in the US are part of this network.
One of the concessions — I don't know what else to describe it — is that the Catholic Church would welcome Angelican priests who are married. Right now, the church accepts clerical converts to Catholicism who are married on a case-by-case basis. I believe there is a married Catholic priest in Anchorage who came to the priesthood in this way, but I can't remember the parish with which he is affiliated.
These disaffected Angelicans would join a new Angelican rite within the Catholic Church, in a similar sense that Rome supports Eastern rite Catholics.
The New York Times has an interesting take on the move, saying that if the Catholic Church embraces Angelican priests who are married, it would go some distance in breaking down the institution's resistance to married priests in general. These Angelicans could be priests, but not bishops, according to Rome's plan.
One thing is sure about the Catholic Church: It has great timing. The Angelican Communion has been rocked by talk of schism. Churches in Africa and Latin America are especially resistant to liberalizing moves, while the American church has been in the vanguard on the ordination of women and gays and the celebration of same-sex unions. Pope Benedict XVI has worked hard during his tenure to make sure the church is a vibrant institution in Europe. He sees his beloved church as under threat by secularism and a growing Muslim immigrant community.
Yet the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, issued a joint statement whose tone was calm and constructive.
“The apostolic constitution is further recognition of the substantial overlap in faith, doctrine and spirituality between the Catholic Church and the Anglican tradition,” that statement said. “Without the dialogues of the past forty years, this recognition would not have been possible, nor would hopes for full visible unity have been nurtured. In this sense, this apostolic constitution is one consequence of ecumenical dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.”
The apostolic constitution to which the archbishops refer is one that Pope Benedict is expected to issue shortly. Popes sometimes make changes to the Code of Canon Law by issuing apostolic constitutions. In this case, the amended constitution would create new legal structures to welcome traditionalist Angelicans.