Fears that the Ordinariate being established by the Holy See for Anglicans who wish to be received into full communion with the Catholic Church will undermine good ecumenical relations have been dismissed by the Archbishop of Birmingham, writes Peter Jennings.

“Some have expressed fears that an Ordinariate may undermine good ecumenical relations but I believe those fears to be ill-founded,” said Archbishop Bernard Longley, the newly appointed chairman of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales Department of Dialogue and Unity, on Sunday, November 21.