Two Church of England bishops have denied reports they will resign to take up the Ordinariate before the end the year.
The Bishop of Ebbsfleet, the Rt Revd Andrew Burnham, and the Bishop of Richborough, the Rt Revd Keith Newton, both Provincial Episcopal Visitors, were said this week to have decided to leave the Church of England and had accepted the Pope’s invitation to join an Ordinariate within the Roman Catholic Church.
The Catholic Herald said….“Senior Anglo-Catholic bishops are likely to take up the Pope’s offer of an Ordinariate before the end of the year.” Bishop Burnham was quoted in The Tablet saying that Pope Benedict XIV had made the offer “and I’ve decided to respond to it”.
If I got an offer from “Benedict XIV” (+1758) I can assure you it would get my most serious attention! And I’m not even Catholic anymore.
Well spotted. I suppose that’s what we should expect from an Anglican publication…!