You perhaps know her as editor of The Tablet. Here is Catherine Pepinster in The Guardian on the pope’s donation of $250,000 to the “ordinariate” – the new structure for Anglicans coming into communion with the Roman Catholic Church: “The pope’s handout to disaffected Anglicans offers a glimpse into his mind.”
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I’d suggest this is about more than money. It gives an intriguing insight into church politics, Benedict’s vision of the church, his personal thinking, and the way he perceives Britain.
News of the donation came hard on the heels of a talk given by the papal nuncio to Britain to the bishops of England and Wales. You might expect a talk on the issues facing the church here would have focused on attendance of mass, priest shortages, and the response of English Catholics to the new version of the English mass, imposed by Rome and not exactly going down a storm in the parishes. Instead, top of the nuncio’s agenda was the ordinariate.
Now if the man who is the pope’s number one diplomat in the UK makes what is officially known as the personal ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, top of his agenda, you can take it as read that the message has come from on high and that it is seen as being of the utmost importance.
Read it all here.
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