The Personal Ordinariates established under the provisions of Anglicanorum Coetibus represent, as the late Mgr Mark Langham called them, “realised ecumenism”. As the first English Ordinary appointed after its publication in 2010, I naturally wanted to be present at Pope Benedict’s funeral. Usually in Rome I stay at the Venerable English College, which is the

The embodiment of this personal journey, which I have always seen as growing from a personal bond with Pope Benedict, came in Anglicanorum coetibus in 2010. The personal ordinariates are the most tangible legacy of Benedict’s pontificate, permanently establishing in structures his liturgical and ecclesiological vision. This is of course why his loss is for us at once a cause for sadness and gratitude.

We will miss him immensely, and we mourn his passing, but we also know that the richness of his thought and his convictions continue in our communities, in our worship, and in the lives of thousands of former Anglicans who now rejoice in the full communion and peace of what St John Henry Newman calls “the one fold of the Redeemer”.

The Archbishop of Birmingham celebrated the Mass in the Ordinariate Use

The Manchester Ordinariate Mission will take over responsibility for St Margaret Mary parish in New Moston

Mgr Keith Newton was reportedly not invited to ecumenical events commemorating the Reformation

The Ordinariate Mass shows how Cranmer's English can enrich the Church in the 21st century

Francis Phillips visited a surprisingly Catholic-looking Anglican church

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