A married former Anglican bishop with children and a grandchild is to sit alongside Roman Catholic bishops at their permanent assembly for England and Wales and have equal and unprecedented status with full voting rights.
The only thing that Father Keith Newton, Ordinary of the new Anglican Ordinariate, will not be able to do as a Roman Catholic priest is ordain other priests. Father Newton, the former Bishop of Richborough, spoke for the first time about his conversion to Catholicism and ordination as a Catholic priest yesterday.
Father Newton was ordained priest on Saturday along with two other former bishops, Father Andrew Burnham and Father John Broadhurst.
He said the Catholic Church had shown nothing but respect for his previous ministry as an Anglican priest and bishop. He is continuing to wear the pectoral cross he wore as an Anglican bishop, which he bought in Rome, and his episcopal ring. He will also be entitled to wear a mitre and carry a crozier.
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Pectoral Crosses and Mitres and Croziers are not Anglican things anyway. So he gets to dress-up like a bishop, but isn't a bishop! I wish that so-called Anglican bishops would dispense with such trinkets.
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