"400,000 Anglicans Ask to Join the Catholic Church En Masse - Homosexuality is the Flash Point", Thomistic muses the following:

This can't make "progressive" Catholic prelates [names names] happy!

Will we even notice?! This corresponds effectively to the addition of a diocese, 400,000 people with 100 churches. OK, maybe a diocese in Jersey, but still.

And what kind of influence does a diocese have, really?

I say, "Bring 'em on in" and we'll sort 'em out later. They don't scare me.