Pope creates new Australian ordinariate for former Anglicans

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This is slightly off-topic, and I apologize to those who are only interested in the situation in Australia, however I would like to mention an article by Rocco Palmo. He is a very well connected blogger, and is sometimes cited as a source by US news outlets. Still, he is a blogger, and so I can’t post this article as a separate thread.

**Anglicanorum Digest **
Beyond the trickle of founding clerics, some 60 candidates for orders [in the US] have been cleared for the pipeline over the last several months, half of them said to be preparing for imminent ordination to diaconate and priesthood. Among them, late this month brings what’ll likely be the largest single ordination rite as – in the region long known as the cradle of American Anglo-Catholicism – Bishop Kevin Vann of Fort Worth makes Catholic deacons of six former Anglican clerics.
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Sixteen months since its founding, the English Ordinariate has yet to secure a principal church of its own, and has been fraught with enough other difficulties for the effort’s head – the former Anglican “flying bishop,” Msgr Keith Newton – to remind his members in a recent article “to not think that the journey will be easy or necessarily straightforward nor will practical matters always work out in the way one might expect.” (Though the Ordinariates are equivalent to dioceses in canon law – and their heads enjoy de iure membership and voting rights in their respective conferences of bishops – Newton and his American counterpart, Msgr Jeffrey Steenson, are precluded from becoming bishops due to their marriages.)
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By contrast, however, the launch of the Stateside entity – an undertaking far more sprawling in scope and complex in its dynamics than its UK sibling – has been perceived as such a success that persistent reports have floated the project’s Rome-picked overseer, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, as a potentially strong contender to succeed California’s own Cardinal William Levada as prefect of the CDF. (Wuerl is shown below presenting Steenson with his bull of appointment at the latter’s February installation in Houston’s Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.)
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whispersintheloggia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/anglicanorum-digest.html

The Rocco Palmo article mentions that in Australia, it is unknown how many persons are interested in the new ordinariate. His article also mentions that the new Australian ordinariate is likely to be the last such endeavor in the foreseeable future.
 
Dale_M said:
This is slightly off-topic, and I apologize to those who are only interested in the situation in Australia, however I would like to mention an article by Rocco Palmo. He is a very well connected blogger, and is sometimes cited as a source by US news outlets. Still, he is a blogger, and so I can’t post this article as a separate thread.

**Anglicanorum Digest **

whispersintheloggia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/anglicanorum-digest.html

The Rocco Palmo article mentions that in Australia, it is unknown how many persons are interested in the new ordinariate. His article also mentions that the new Australian ordinariate is likely to be the last such endeavor in the foreseeable future.
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forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=9298639&postcount=7

😉

Just giving you a hard time. It is a very good article. I posted another one in the same thread right afterwards which is quite good also.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=9300584#post9300584

Peace,
 
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