Pope Names Cleric for Ex-Anglicans

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Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday named a married priest and former sportswriter who converted from Anglicanism to head the first organizational structure for U.S. converts to Roman Catholicism wanting to retain some of their Anglican heritage.

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Pope Benedict XVI has established a U.S. ordinariate for former Anglicans who wish to become Catholics and named a married former Episcopal bishop to head it.

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Opening its doors more widely to disaffected Episcopalians, the Roman Catholic Church has established the equivalent of a nationwide diocese in the United States that former Episcopal priests and congregations can enter together as intact groups, the Vatican announced Sunday.

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I’m happy to hear that Fr. Steenson has been named to head the Ordinariate. I have heard a lot of good things about him–my bishop thinks very highly of him.

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He’s in charge for now, but since he is married he cannot become a Catholic bishop, correct? So will a bishop eventually be named to the Ordinariate?
 
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He’s in charge for now, but since he is married he cannot become a Catholic bishop, correct? So will a bishop eventually be named to the Ordinariate?
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Not necessarily, I believe. Obviously when he retires/dies, if there are celibate clergy available at that point one might be named bishop.

I actually have strong ecclesiological objections to overlapping jurisdictions. I’d be happy if the Ordinariate functioned more as a society to foster and preserve the Anglican patrimony within Catholicism, without taking on a quasi-episcopal role.

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He’s a good man, indeed. He has come to speak a couple of times at my parish. His conversion story is quite moving.

Great to see more Anglican’s coming home.
 
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