In accordance with the provisions of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus Pope Benedict XVI on November 4, 2009 and after careful consultation with the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has erected today a Ordinariate Staff in the territory of England and Wales for those groups of shepherds and faithful Anglicans who have expressed their desire to enter into the full visible communion with the Catholic Church. The decree establishing the Ordinariate specifies that it will be called Ordinariate Staff of Our Lady of Walsingham and will have as its patron Blessed John Henry Newman.
A Personal Ordinariate is a canonical form that allows a corporate meeting, so as to enable those who were Anglicans to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church, while retaining the characteristic elements of their Anglican heritage. With this structure, the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus seeks to settle on the one hand the intention to preserve, within the Catholic Church, the venerable liturgical traditions, spiritual and pastoral Anglican and, secondly, the fact that these new groups and their pastors are fully integrated into the Catholic Church.
For doctrinal reasons, the Church does not allow in any case, the ordination of married men. Nevertheless, the Apostolic Constitution provides, under certain conditions, as Catholic priests ordination of married former Anglican ministers. Today, in Westminster Cathedral in London, The Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, has ordered three former Catholic priests, Anglican bishops: the Rev. Andrew Burnham, the Rev. Keith Newton and the Rev. John Broadhurst.
Still, today, Pope Benedict XVI has appointed the Rev. Keith Newton as the first Professor of ' Ordinariate Staff of Our Lady of Walsingham. The Rev. Newton, together with the Rev. Burnham and Rev. Broadhurst, will take care of catechetical preparation of the first groups of Anglicans in England and Wales, which will be received at Easter in the Catholic Church with their pastors, as well as the accompanying Ministers are preparing to be ordained to the Catholic priesthood, around Pentecost.
legislation of this new structure is consistent with the commitment for ecumenical dialogue, which continues to be a priority for the Catholic Church. The initiative that led to the publication the Apostolic Constitution and the erection of that came from Staff Ordinariate different groups of Anglicans, who say they share the common Catholic faith as expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and to recognize the Petrine ministry as willed by Christ himself for Church. For them it is time to express this unity implicit in the form of full visible communion.
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