established under the patronage of Blessed Cardinal Newman, Our Lady of Walsingham. Rocco Palmo reports:
All of 14 months since the Vatican announced a historic opening to welcome Anglican groups into full communion, in the same hour that the three former "Flying Bishops" of the Church of England's Anglo-Catholic wing are being ordained to the Catholic priesthood in Westminster Cathedral, the Holy See has announced the establishment of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
Comprising former Anglicans in England and Wales who'll be permitted to maintain much of the liturgical and (lay-heavy) administrative tradition of the Canterbury communion, the first-of-its-kind structure has been placed under the patronage of Blessed John Henry Newman, with the Pope naming the youngest of the ex-prelates -- now Fr Keith Newton, 58 -- as the founding Ordinary...
All part of ecumenism, according to the Vatican's press release:
...The provision of this new structure is consistent with the commitment to ecumenical dialogue, which continues to be a priority for the Catholic Church. The initiative leading to the publication of the Apostolic Constitution and the erection of this Personal Ordinariate came from a number of different groups of Anglicans who have declared that they share the common Catholic faith as it is expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and accept the Petrine ministry as something Christ willed for the Church. For them, the time has now come to express this implicit unity in the visible form of full communion...
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