Odinariate Watch:An Appreciation of Anglicanorum Coetibus (Part III): Study Paper I – Towards an English Ordinariate

This Study Paper, written by the Revd Brooke Lunn, is published on the Catholic League website. It is prefaced by these words:

Following the posting from Prebendary Brooke Lunn, our past Priest Director’s remarkable Appreciation of Anglicanorum Coetibus, in which he judges that the Apostolic Constitution’s provisions satisfy the aspirations of the historic and influential Anglican Papalist tradition and its objectives for “corporate reunion”, we now post the first of his three accompanying Study Papers.

Study Paper I: Towards an English Ordinariate was drafted in the period following the issue of Anglicanorum Coetibus in late 2009 and into 2010. It was circulated privately to assist Anglicans discerning the significance and provisions of the Apostolic Constitution and proposed a “proto-Ordinariate”, an informal association of individuals and groups exploring possibilities, who could serve as the basis of a more defined movement out of which the Ordinariate itself could be formed.

Above all, Fr Lunn focuses on the Constitution’s four significant factors....

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