tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post1329390382654383915..comments2023-10-18T14:53:28.622+01:00Comments on Forest Murmurs: Former bishop of Durham speaks about the OrdinariateFr Michael Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15320336535138538635noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-49282799252654370532010-11-04T00:45:10.202+00:002010-11-04T00:45:10.202+00:00I understand that our Bishops feel that Anglicanor...I understand that our Bishops feel that Anglicanorum Coetibus is damaging to ecumenism, and therefore the offer should not have been made. An alternative view, and one I favour, is that ecumenism was severely damaged by intitially, the CofE ordaining women to the priesthood, and that ordination to the episcopacy would follow as night follows day. <br /><br />The Pope's offer to Anglo Catholics was actually a generous and caring concern for those Anglicans who were, in effect, being driven out of their Church.<br /><br />The setting up of the Ordinariate should have no impact whatever on the Catholic Bishops' Conference, but the virtual silence from the Bishops in public on this issue is seen as being covertly hostile to the wishes of the Pope.<br /><br />Traditional Catholics should welcome the reconciliation to Rome of a body of clergy and laity whose liturgical practices are closer to our way of doing things, and who knows? - their influence might even spread to the wider Catholic Church.1569 Risingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-74271983823370039972010-11-03T12:55:23.695+00:002010-11-03T12:55:23.695+00:00They don't have nearly enough 'traditional...They don't have nearly enough 'traditionalists' in any diocese. What they do have are too many 'modernists', 'liberals' call them what you will among both clergy (of all ranks!) & laity who are ready to both do their own thing & to encourage others to do likewise.David O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04023042558615821880noreply@blogger.com