St. Mary’s Church which belongs to a long-established English Catholic family, was set to close until the Catholic Church's Ordinariate for the Anglican tradition stepped in and now it's thriving ..read more

Monsignor Burnham, one of five bishops who in 2010 resigned to join The Ordinariate, reflects on what he now believes was a miracle of creative ecumenism, an act of healing at the hands, and from the heart, of a deeply generous pope ..read more

There are a dozen dioceses, along with The Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter (a de facto diocese comprised of several parishes of converts from Anglicanism), who are considered by a report from Vocation Ministry to be the “healthiest” in terms of vocations to the priesthood. The report is based on data from the Official Catholic Directory over a period of six years (2015 to 2021 ..read more

Bishop Steven J. Lopes of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter and Chairman of the USCCB's Committee on Divine Worship, offers reflections on the work of God in the sacred liturgy, the relationship of artistic beauty to the truths of the Catholic faith and a life of charity, as well as a bit about the formation of the Ordinariate's liturgical books ..read more

Speaking on his own behalf rather than that of ACNA, Bishop Menees – who attended the ordination of the ordinariate’s Bishop Steven J. Lopes – said he "was grateful to Pope Benedict XVI for having opened the door" to enhanced Anglican-Catholic relations by establishing the ordinariate. At the same time, Bishop Menees noted the ordinariate is "problematic for Anglicans" since it is a 'one-generation event ..read more

The weeklong Christian ecumenical observance, taking place Jan. 18-25 this year, “is important for all Christians” but has “even greater significance” for Catholics coming from the Anglican tradition, James Griffin told OSV News. St. Timothy’s Ordinariate Catholic Church in Sykesville, Maryland, will co-sponsor a solemn choral evensong Jan. 25 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, using the Ordinariate form of the Liturgy of the Hours’ evening prayer that reflects their Anglican tradition in full Catholic communion. Father Armando Alejandro, St. Timothy’s parochial administrator, wi ..read more

"[T]here were some who said, 'Well, you shouldn’t go; this is an act of war.' But I said, 'That’s completely ridiculous, I need to go. I need to keep the friendship, and we need to keep the routine discussion between our churches on an even keel.' And that’s exactly what happened. Together, we set in motion the next round of official talks between our two communions and the creation of the ordinariate didn’t disturb [that]. And I think for some people it’s been contexts where they’ve flourished, and what can we do but give thanks to God? But there is a much bigger task to do for the reconcilia ..read more

A leading former Anglican bishop who converted to Catholicism has described Benedict XVI’s famous initiative enabling Anglicans to convert to Catholicism as “prophetic ..read more

"The ordinariate is a partial fulfilment of the “united but not absorbed” proposal of the Malines Conversations of the early 20th century and, of course, the work of ARCIC, of which I was a member for many years. Pope Emeritus Benedict would have, I am sure, wanted the ordinariate to develop according to the logic of its own genius in the full unity and diversity of the Catholic Church: Eastern and Western ..read more

"As I’ve already said, I held no animosity toward the Catholic Church before this moment. It simply seemed irrelevant. In Pope Benedict, though, I saw not only a church leader who offered all that our meandering Anglican hearts sought, but who did so not in the isolation that had become our norm, but as Supreme Pastor of the Universal Church. In short: I saw in him, and for the first time, the papacy of the first millennium that I had seen in the Fathers, and thus instinctively trusted him when he showed how this institution was still to be found in the papacy today ..read more