Friday, January 21, 2011

Ordinariate Watch: Anglo-Catholics set to defect over women bishops


The simmering row at the heart of the Church of England over women priests may lead to a Darlington congregation defecting to the Roman Catholic Church.

Worshippers at St James the Great will hold a public meeting to discuss entering the Ordinariate – a special branch of the Catholic church for Anglicans who convert to Catholicism.

To read the full article, click here.

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This congregation is, according to the article, capable of self-support, of paying the stipend of a full-time priest. I wonder how many other congregations considering accepting the papal offer are capable of the same thing? How many of them are subsidized?

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