Cardinal Fernández ordains first bishop for British ordinariate

The cardinal in charge of the Vatican’s doctrinal department has ordained the first bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, flew from Rome to London to ordain Bishop David Waller as the second ordinary of the organisation created for the corporate reception of Anglicans into the Catholic Church.

During a Mass at Westminster Cathedral, the Argentine Jesuit quoted a homily of St John Henry Newman on Christ the Good Shepherd, reminding the congregation of the saint’s observation that “a shepherd leads from within”.