The Ordinariate is to receive and ordain a married clergyman who was a Latin Rite Catholic layman from birth until deep into his adult life, who was married as such, and who seems to have become an Anglican no more than a dozen or so years ago, if that.
This is getting out of hand.
And he is bringing his deacon with him, only just ordained. How much did his training cost the C of E?But he must have made this decision before it was over. That training will have been nothing like the six years at seminary that we are accustomed to, probably no more than two. Same goes for the vicar.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, whatever happened to the TAC? At least they really do have a distinctive liturgy, not the same old Novus Ordo as almost every Catholic parish in the land. The Ordinariate seems to have become a fast-track personal conversion machine for the Roman Rite gang that ran Forward in Faith. That is not what the Holy Father had in mind.
ReplyDeleteLooks as if those married ex-Catholic priests ministering on as freelances in Peru might be onto something after all. Set up an Ordinariate under the Anglicans, then seek to reconstitute it as a Catholic one on the grounds that they were now ex-Anglicans. Using only the modern Roman Rite, but the same goes for the Ordinariate in England and it, too, will include at least one married ex-Catholic priest.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, this one has never been a Catholic priest. But there certainly are such within the Forward in Faith constituency. They had thought that they were liberals, until they encountered the C of E from the inside.
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