Former Anglican priest and head of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, Bishop David Waller, has said that for many the newly published St Barnabas Society report reveals that the ordination of women was the “final proof” Anglican–Catholic unity was no longer being seriously pursued.
The report, authored by Stephen Bullivant, Fernanda Mee and Janet Mellor, records that around 700 former clergy and religious of the Church of England, Church in Wales and Scottish Episcopal Church, including 16 former Anglican bishops and two Continuing Anglican bishops, have entered into full communion with Rome since 1992.
