Category Archives: Pope of Christian Unity

Take the Women’s Ordination Conference! Please?

Posted on 3 January 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

As we approach the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, I just want to give a big shout out to  the folks at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in downtown Washington, DC, for allowing some Catholic girls to jump around in … Continue reading →

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SSPX Bp. Fellay delivers a long “state of the question” address

Posted on 1 January 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

On 28 December 2012, SSPX Superior Bishop Bernard Fellay gave a long address in English to what sounds like good sized mixed crowd at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Ontario, Canada.
He unloaded a lot of information.
The talk is 1’37″. … Continue reading →

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UK Anglican Ordinariate finally gets a parish!

Posted on 24 December 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

GREAT NEWS FROM ENGLAND! From the site of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
I’ll add a comment, below.
Ordinariate priest appointed to South London parish
An announcement was made yesterday (Sunday) that the Parish of the Most Precious Blood, Borough, is … Continue reading →

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Prefect of CDF on Anglican Ordinariate and SSPX

Posted on 19 December 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald with my emphases:
Head of the CDF urges Catholics to welcome ordinariate converts
Catholics in England and Wales should welcome members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, the new prefect of … Continue reading →

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Community of Anglican Nuns to join the UK Ordinariate

Posted on 12 December 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Thanks to Anglicanorum coetibus, this comes today for your “Just Too Cool” file or your “Brick by Brick” file or your “Benedict XVI is the Pope of Christian Unity” file:
HISTORIC COMMUNITY OF ANGLICANS NUNS TO JOIN ORDINARIATE
A group of Anglican … Continue reading →

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2006 comments by Card. Kasper about Anglicans, women bishops, and ecumenical dialogue

Posted on 28 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Fr. Finigan at his fine blog, The Hermeneutic of Continuity, has a piece today about something Card. Kasper told Anglicans at Lambeth in 2006 as the then-President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
Here is an excerpt:
It [viz. the ordination … Continue reading →

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Misogynist England now waging a war on women

Posted on 20 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

England is clearly a misogynistic waging a war on women.  This must be true because the official state church of England has rejected women bishops.
From the site of The Church of England.

General Synod Rejects Draft Legislation on Women Bishops

20 November … Continue reading →

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Russian Orthodox Metropolitan’s grim letter to the new Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury

Posted on 14 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Here is the Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion’s letter to the new Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury:
Dear Brother and Lord Bishop,
I would like to extend to you wholehearted congratulations on your election as Head of one of the oldest episcopal chairs founded … Continue reading →

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New Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury – a new hope!

Posted on 9 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Via the best Catholic weekly in the UK, The Catholic Herald…
Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster has welcomed the appointment of the Rt Rev Justin Welby, Bishop of Durham, as the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
Writing on behalf of the Bishops’ Conference … Continue reading →

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Lutheran Ordinariate?

Posted on 30 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Could there be an Ordinariate for former Lutherans in a way similar to those for former Anglicans?
It is hard for me to see how. Perhaps it could be possible.
From CWN:
The president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity said … Continue reading →

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