Ordinariate Watch: It's all or nothing for Anglican Catholics

Anglicans entering the Catholic Church through the special Ordinariate established for them must do so with genuine acceptance of the Church’s teachings or not at all, one of its key figures said at a historic gathering last week.

Traditional Anglican Communion Bishop Harry Entwistle, who will host a Festival for the Anglican Ordinariate in Australia at Como parish on 26 February, told the gathering in Coomera on Queensland’s Gold Coast that unity can only exist when there is unity of faith.

With a relic of Thomas Beckett to his left, Bishop Entwistle quoted TS Eliot’s play Murder in the Cathedral, where he gave the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury the line: “Above all things this is the greatest treason, to do the right thing for the wrong reason.” This is critical to Anglicans seeking unity with Rome, Bishop Entwistle said during his homily at an Anglican Mass for unity on 3 February at the Festival that drew 62 people. “Those entering the Ordinariate must be quite clear that we wish to embrace the Catholic faith and not just enter into this Ordinariate because there’s no other option. So we must do it for the right reason, otherwise it’s not real,” he said.

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