The Church must take greater care in preparing couples for marriage, Benedict XVI said in his annual address to the Roman Rota on Saturday.

Divisions between Christians are "an offence to Christ", Pope Benedict said at the Angelus yesterday (full text).

Fr Keith Newton, head of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, told the BBC yesterday he is hopeful that "there will be some sharing of Anglican premises".

Bishop Thomas McMahon of Brentwood has said that his diocese has the largest number of Anglican parishes that want to join the Ordinariate.