The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has published a new document on the Anglican Ordinariate patrimony within the Catholic Church, signalling approval within Rome.
The text, formally titled Characteristics of the Anglican Heritage as Lived in the Ordinariates Established Under the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, comes after discussions held at the dicastery from March 1 to 3.
The immediate context is important. On March 2 the Pope received Bishop David Waller and Steven Joseph Lopes in audience, with Cardinal Fernández. That encounter followed a private plenary meeting of the Ordinariate bishops convened by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, during which the bishops were asked to articulate how the Anglican patrimony is concretely lived within Catholic communion.
