- The Archbishop of Canterbury says that the Pope's Apostolic Constitution left him with a 'sore ego'.
- Rowan's reassured though, as the invitation "did not represent any change in the Vatican's attitude toward the Anglican communion as such." That much is true. Substantive ecumenism between the Catholic Church and the C of E is dead, it has been for some time, and the ordinariates do nothing to revive the lifeless corpse.
- Fr. Hunwicke points out the ecclesiological weakness of the personal ordinariate scheme. The Church is the presbyterate, diaconate, and laos gathered around the bishop. Non-episcopal ordinaries must be a transitional arrangement only if the new Anglican structures are to embody the fullness of Catholic ecclesiology. Presumably all future ordinaries would be celibate bishops.
- Fr. Phillips of Our Lady of the Atonement reflects on the Apostolic Constitution as the fulfillment of the initial arrangements made under the Pastoral Provision. Due to indifference, ignorance, or even hostility, the Anglican Use has been limited to this point by the failure of local bishops to implement the PP in their dioceses. The freedom of the ordinariates to see to their own development will truly allow our Anglican patrimony to flourish rather than to simply subsist.
- Joseph Ratzinger considers "apocryphal" Anglican orders. The Holy Father's point about a "formally assured legitimacy" without revising the ecclesial context (i.e. outside of the visible unity of the Church) is key. In Ratzinger's mind, this reduces ordinations to a "liturgical-juridical" formality. The English reformers reworked the ordinal and removed late medieval accretions perhaps, but they did so with bad intent and against the 'mind of the Church'. In the Continuing Church, we have restored these ceremonies — and we (or our Anglican forebears) may also have remedied a breach in Apostolic Succession with the influx of Old Catholic orders — but even so, the "apocryphal" nature of our orders (from the perspective of the larger Church) is the issue. The Bishop of Ebbfleet also notes (in the comments to this post) that it is reasonable to ask whether "the traditional Western criteria of ordination have been adequate to the task."
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Christian Campbell is the Senior Warden of the Cathedral of the Incarnation (Orlando, FL) and a member of the Standing Committee of the Anglican Church in America's Diocese of the Eastern United States. The ACA is the American province of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC).
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