January 1st 2011: Keith Newton, Sister Jane Louise, Sister Carolyne Joseph and Sister Wendy Renate on their day of Reception into the Catholic Church


January 13th 2011: Ordinations to the Diaconate


THE P RTAL


February 2011


But that is because they do not grasp the logic of those who worked to achieve it. What would be very sad is if the Ordinariate were to become, for this reason, a constant thorn in the side of Anglican-Catholic relations. Sad, and also unnecessary.


It should be possible to recognize how the Oxford


Movement can continue to give inspiration to those in communion with Canterbury in a more diffuse way, while at the same time giving inspiration to Anglicans in union with Rome in a more focussed way. Seeing it in those terms makes Anglo-Catholicism, as the outgoing Bishop of Ebbsfleet liked to say, ‘a common


Historic Events


January 1st 2011: Reception into the Catholic Church


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treasure’. One obvious fashion in which the Church of England can acknowledge that sharing of spiritual riches is by generosity in allowing the members of the Ordinariate, where feasible, the use of churches and chapels that were brought into existence to serve the Tractarian cause.


Te Ordinariate can help the Catholic Church in


England to be more obviously English. But it can also help English Roman Catholics to appreciate what is beautiful about the ethos of the Church of England, unless through an evangelistically pointless anger the opportunity is thrown away.


Jan 15th: Pope Benedict XVI nominates Fr Keith Newton as the first Ordinary


The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is announced


January 15th 2011: Ordinations to the Priesthood


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