By April 2011, something remarkable was beginning to happen. Across England, groups of Anglican clergy and lay faithful were quietly preparing to cross the Tiber together, stepping into the unknown with the newly created Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Mgr Keith Newton and his two assistants, Mgrs Broadhurst and Burnham, had already been ordained to the priesthood on January 15, 2011. Now the next wave of candidates was assembling dossiers and CVs for Rome, while during Holy Week entire parish groups were being received into the full communion of the Catholic Church alongside their pastors.
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An English patrimony
What began as a bold and uncertain experiment has become a distinctive expression of Catholic life rooted in English spiritual and cultural tradition
Fr Mark Elliott Smith

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