Okay, so yes, you’ve all seen it by now… I haven’t so I’ll spend the next half hour or so watching it. Hope it’s worth it…
The transcript is here.
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A VIDEO WORTH CELEBRATING! Never thought I see this happen in my lifetime.
Worth storing this video clip in my personal files because I myself a Catholic married an Anglican and always thought we must strive to be “AS ONE”.
Very Good Video. When is it time for the Southern African Ordiniariate? http://ordinariatesa.wordpress.com/
Interestingly, this was a story in today’s Catholic Herald: Leading Church historian to be received into personal ordinariate
From Peterhouse, to his Reith Lectures, from York Minster to to “Secularisation”, (2002), and then to “Anglican Difficulties” (2004) Dr Norman’s journey towards Catholicsm and the OLW Ordinariate has been quite a journey..
As if by coincidence, the on-line edition also carried a story about a Catholic Bishop celebrating Mass at Beverely Minster – apparently the first time a bishop has done so since the reign of Henry VIII.
Welsh Anglican blogging priest, Fr Michael Gollop SSC, ( Let Nothing You Dismay today posts a link to a 2004 Daily Telegraph Damian Tompson interview with Canon Norman ‘Anglicanism is going to tip into the sea’. This quote:
“There is a big hole at the centre of Anglicanism – its authority. I don’t think it’s a Church; it’s more of a religious society.”
In “Anglican Difficulties” Dr Norman had been particularly scathing about what I term “Anglican Fudge”:-
“Every disagreement, in seemingly everyboard or committee, proceeds by avoidance of principled debate. Ordinary moral cowardice is represented as wise judgement; equivocation in the construction of compromise formulae is second nature to leaders.”
In the more recent Catholic Herald Articles he returns to this theme:-
“IHe argues that Anglicanism has “no basis for its authority” as its confession “varies from place to place and person to person”. He says: “At the centre of Anglicanism is a great void.”
He adds: “The Church of England provides a masterclass in equivocation; it also, however, is the residence of very many good and faithful Christian people who deserve respect – for their perseverance in so many incoherent spiritual adventures.
“To leave their company is a wrench; to adhere to the Catholic faith is to join the encompassing presence of a universal body of believers in whose guardianship are the materials of authentic spiritual understanding… I have immense gratitude.”
In a nutshell, the problem is the absence of the Magisterium.
Very interesting..but the presenters get so many things wrong.. I do hope Hepworth can be received back into the Church as a layman with his marriage regularised. I can’t see him as a back seat person.
@ Robert – Surely you do not expect the media – even the Catholic Media, I am afraid – to get everything right on such a new concept as the Ordinariate? Even diocesan press officers have made erroneous statements in the recent past.
What is interest is that thus far it seems the there is an apparently logical transition. Many ggod Anglicans who have perceived the difficulties engendered by the “pick and mix” approach to orthodox beleif and practice first formed the TAC whose bishops signed up to the Catechism of the Catholic Church and thereby accepted the magisterium. A goodly number of former TAC clerics appear to be persevering despite the difficulties. It will be much harder in huge countries like Australia and the USA where the distances between the pioneer groups are so much greater than in the UK. One would hope that the new technologies – including blogs – will help to provide a support network.
Mr. Hepworth doesn’t seem to be the evil, cartoonish villain that he was described as by certain people. When he said he was willing to be a layman in the Roman Catholic Church, my reaction was: “Oh. Well, there you go!”
I mean maybe we could use someone like him in the Catholic Church, somehow.
And yet, there he sits in his Primate’s regalia with a pectoral cross the size of a Christmas tree. He has been singing that song since 1997… So why does he not go? And contrary to what he is saying in the video, the only reason he is being acted against canonically is for allegedly having fiddled in the kitty. He has ever right to defend himself against the charges, as does he to see and tell the truth about his current situation.