Mgr Keith Newton, former flying bishop in the Church of England and now the head of the Ordinariate in England and Wales, sitting as a full voting member of the Catholic Bishops' Conference, discloses for the first time the detail of how the Ordinariate came into being. He and another former flying bishops, Andrew Burnham, also now a Catholic priest and Mgr, went to Rome in 2008 and asked to see representatives from the Council for Christian Unity and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. "He thought he might get the third filing clerk or something." Instead, they were given an hour-long session with the head of the Congregation, Cardinal William Levada. "He gave us an hour and all we did was talk about the situation in the Church of England as we saw it and whether there was any possibility of some way groups of people could enter the Catholic Church together with their priests. What was clear is that he took what was said very seriously." He added: "We were just advised to be patient and that's what we did." More details at thetimes.co.uk/articlesoffaith, Facebook.com/ArticlesofFaith. Follow @ruthiegledhill on Twitter. (This is a long video but I thought it would be of interest in particular to future historians of this new development.) For Times subscribers, the news story is here: http://thetim.es/m61om7
St Augustine said " if the Pope has spoken, the matter is settled."
Hkepfer 5 months ago
The papalotrist says, "If the pope says it, does it, it must be good." Then he goes on to justify non Catholic practices and policies. The sedevacantist rightly condemns scandalous actions and policies in the recent past by popes, but he wrongly concludes, "what the pope has done is not good, therefore this must mean he is not actually pope." We may be obedient, while also defending that which is unchangeable, that which is not against Holy Tradition defined by the past Councils and popes.
LiturgicalChants 8 months ago