Vatican Affirms Future of Anglican Ordinariates: ‘A Precious Gift and a Treasure to Be Shared’
Bishop Steven Lopes welcomed a Vatican document as a significant encouragement, calling it ‘an exhortation to live this patrimony in all of its richness.’
Bishop Steven Lopes welcomed a Vatican document as a significant encouragement, calling it ‘an exhortation to live this patrimony in all of its richness.’
To have such a Mass celebrated in the mother church of England was ‘very impressive, very moving. We must pray a lot for the conversion of England...’
Msgr. Newton said in a statement that he was ‘delighted’ with Father Waller’s appointment, adding that he has been ‘unwaveringly loyal’ to the Ordinariate and a ‘great support’ to him as vicar general.
On July 2, Richard Pain became the 11th such bishop to be received into the Church.
‘This is the first time in history that the Catholic Church has opened its doors and allowed a tradition which was fostered in the years of the Reformation to enter into full communion with the Church…’
St. Mary’s Church which belongs to a long-established English Catholic family, was set to close until the Ordinariate for former Anglicans stepped in and now it's thriving.
The well-known former Anglican who was recently received into the Catholic Church through the ordinariate, Msgr. Michael Nazir-Ali reflects on Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
Within a year, four Church of England bishops became Catholic — a decision rooted both in discipleship of Jesus Christ and a realization that corporate unity between Catholicism and Anglicanism was becoming impossible.
Pope Benedict XVI had authorized the creation of personal ordinariates for groups of former Anglicans in his 2009 apostolic constitution “Anglicanorum coetibus.”
“This is the liturgy of the baptismal priesthood offering this prayer for, and with, the entire Church — for and with the entire world really — for the sanctification of the world,” says Bishop Steven Lopes of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.
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