In accordance with the provisions of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus of Pope Benedict XVI (November 4, 2009) and after careful consultation with the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has today erected a Personal Ordinariate within the territory of England and Wales for those groups of Anglican clergy and faithful who have expressed their desire to enter into full visible communion with the Catholic Church. The Decree of Erection specifies that the Ordinariate will be known as the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and will be placed under the patronage of Blessed John Henry Newman.
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Also today Pope Benedict XVI has nominated Reverend Keith Newton as the first Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Together with Reverend Burnham and Reverend Broadhurst, Reverend Newton will oversee the catechetical preparation of the first groups of Anglicans in England and Wales who will be received into the Catholic Church together with their pastors at Easter, and to accompany the clergy preparing for ordination to the Catholic priesthood around Pentecost.
H/T to Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans.
UPDATE: From Background information on the Ordinariate:
Will members of the Ordinariate still be Anglicans?
No. Members of the Ordinariate will be Catholics. Their decision is to leave the Anglican Communion and come into the Catholic Church, in full communion with the Pope.
The central purpose of Anglicanorum coetibus is "to maintain the liturgical, spiritual and pastoral traditions of the Anglican Communion within the Catholic Church, as a precious gift nourishing the faith of the members of the Ordinariate and as a treasure to be shared". Members of the Ordinariate will bring with them, into full communion with the Catholic Church in all its diversity and richness of liturgical rites and traditions, some aspects their own Anglican patrimony and culture.
Is your use of the word "erected" in the headline meant to imply anything about these gentlemen's characters and ethics at all, Mimi? ...
ReplyDeleteI just thought you might be suggesting there was something they resembled. That was all.
Cathy, I used the word "erected" because CCN uses a variation on the word several times. I confess that I did not keep a straight face through my entire reading of the press release. As of this particular moment, I am laughing. What about "established"? Would not that have been a better choice? But then, what do I know? Perhaps "erected" is an ancient traditional usage.
ReplyDeleteStill, I ask you, my readers, to try to be good.
To quote Emily Latella, "Never mind."
ReplyDeleteWell, if you were intending a ... comparison, shall we say ... I must say I agree.
ReplyDeleteEven though that's insulting to men's ... well, indeed, never mind :-)
Who is Keith Newton?
ReplyDeleteI will be good. I will be good. I will be good.
ReplyDeleteGrandmère, must I write it all 100 times on the blackboard? (If I want to be good, I probably should.)
"Decree of Erection." All they need to do is send the Pontiff's personal secretary to the British Isles and the misogynists should, well, never mind.
Sorry, I just want to be bad with Msgr Gaenswein.
Lapin! I was wondering where the hell you had got to.
ReplyDelete(by which I mean, you don't seem to have posted on WB much recently)
ReplyDeleteLapin, all I know about Keith Newton is that he is a former Anglican bishop. In truth, according to Rome, the three were never bishops or even priests, for that matter.
ReplyDeletePaul, to the naughty chair this instant!
Jeffri and Cathy, I see that you're at least trying, but that Paul....
Lapin, Keith Newton was Suffragan Bishop of Richborough in the Diocese of Canterbury.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info on Newton. You headline gave me a bit of a turn when I initially misread it and thought that the Roman Church had "elected" a bishop.
ReplyDeleteIt's the coetibus word that keeps getting me.... !
ReplyDeleteAnd, just wondering... how does one maintain the liturgical, spiritual and pastoral traditions of the Anglican Communion if one is not, indeed Anglican but Roman?!
"to maintain the liturgical, spiritual and pastoral traditions" - Cranmer's ashes must be proud, Margaret.
ReplyDeleteWV unifi!
Lapin, one might say that Newton is right from Rowan's east lawn.
ReplyDeleteThey're not at "elected" yet; they're hardly past "erected".
Margaret, not being a Latin scholar, I've always thought "coetibus" sounded more than a bit naughty.
How those folks will still be Anglican is beyond me.
"...some aspects of their own patrimony and culture..." Has a decision been handed down concerning coffee hour? Seriously, this could be a deal-breaker.
ReplyDeleteOh Bex! That's right. The whole thing could fall apart.
ReplyDeleteOld US Political Joke (c. 1988. You have to remember Sen. Gary Hart, leading contender, caught cavorting w/ a young woman aboard the good ship "Monkey Business". Wot the Senator said to her): I told you to "lick my erection", not "wreck my election"!
ReplyDeleteHeard whining at the Vatican, Georg: "Liebchen, I thought your 'Personal Erections' were only for meeeeee!"
('kay, I'll stop now. ;-X)
My guess is that one of the aspects of their Anglican patrimony that they aren't taking with them is the bit in Article XIX that says 'As the Church of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch, have erred, so also the Church of Rome hath erred, not only in their living and manner of Ceremonies, but also in matters of Faith.'
ReplyDeleteActually it will probably be an interesting example of transubstantiation, in the true Aristotelian sense - the substance will be Roman Catholic and the accidents Anglican...
Catholics they are, Roman catholic the will become...
ReplyDeletevw: ingismen...
"mad dogs and..."
JCF, did you even try to be good?
ReplyDeleteTim, what you say about transubstantiation is thought-provoking, indeed.
Göran, exactly.
Setting up the ordinariate is much ado about nothing. The folks who went and will go over to Rome were free to leave at any time, and I believe they will come to see that the ordinariate is nothing special, that they are simply Roman Catholic converts.
Some folks feel better when under a more authoritative authority. Not everyone wants to sing jazz...
ReplyDeleteSurprised no old-time has linked this before now.
ReplyDeleteTwo comments. First "erect" is the word that the Vatican uses when it creates a bishopric (pause here for gales of laughter from the Peanut Gallery). The Bishop of a diocese is referred to in RC parlance as the "Ordinary" of the place. That is, he is the first line of recourse when something needs to be referred upwards. So the Ordinariate is erected by the Pope.
ReplyDeleteSide comment: one of the anti-Popes who is around is based in the Pacific Northwest, I think. If I could be arsed to google him, I would be able to refer you to the picture of this Pope, in full white robes, constructing a wall. Perhaps he was erecting an ordinariate.
Second, they misnamed the orgnisation. It should really be called the Personal Ordinariate of St. Damien of Molokai, in honour of the heroic priest who lived in the leper colony in Hawai'i and died there, a sufferer from the same disease which afflicted his charges.
Not everyone wants to sing jazz...
ReplyDeleteThank you, Laurel! Your comment is much appreciated. :-)
Lapin, the video is wonderful. If I posted it, would I be piling on?
No.
ReplyDeleteThe sight of these people rushing downhill like Gadarene Swine into a church mired to the eyeballs in a stupendous pedophile scandal, so as to avoid nasty woman bishops, beggars belief.
As to the Roman "unmarried bishops" position, where did St Peter's mother-in-law come from?
As to the Roman "unmarried bishops" position, where did St Peter's mother-in-law come from?
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised Peter's mother-in-law hasn't yet been relegated to the same place as Jesus' brothers and sisters.
Well, one thing is for sure, whatever
ReplyDeletemoney they come up with will no longer fill Anglican coffers!
Please note: Celibacy wasn't enforced until 11th century, lots of centuries for mother-in-laws to happen :>)
Nij
Nij, the RCC is not exactly awash in money, either, but you're right, those who leave will take their money with them.
ReplyDeleteI know that celibacy came late in the history of the church, and when priest were forbidden marriage, the rule came about mainly because of property issues.
JCF, did you even try to be good?
ReplyDelete{In Mae West drag}
"When I'm good, I'm very, very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better!"
;-p~~~
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Some folks feel better when under a more authoritative authority. Not everyone wants to sing jazz...
Ala Eric Hoffer's "Escape From Freedom", re how the post-WW1 Germans CHOSE the Nazis? O_o
Um, when those "prefer authoritative authority"-types choose, oh, say, to OUTLAW ME from getting married, that's a preference Too Far! >:-(
{JCF, jazzing it up---regardless of how it makes someone else "feel"}
I yield the naughty chair to JCF.
ReplyDeleteJCF, I must admit you're pretty damned jazzy. Take the naughty chair that Paul just yielded.
ReplyDeletePaul, the only pass I give you is that JCF is even more outrageous, and I have only one naughty chair.
How did I ever get mixed up with such a craaazzzy bunch of people?
You know you love me, Mimi. (Maybe not as much as Crazy @rse, but still... ;-/)
ReplyDeleteI do, JCF, I do.
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