I suspect that the future of the Ordinariate lies elsewhere: with bright younger Anglo-Catholic clergy, some of them scholars, and with thousands of committed lay people who already belong to “gathered congregations” ”“ that is, who are used to worshipping at a church that suits them rather than just attending their local parish. This is an increasingly common pattern of worship throughout Catholicism, Anglicanism and the Evangelical world, not just some picky Anglo-Catholic habit. Another significant pattern is church-planting, which the Catholic Church in England has been really bad at until now”¦ but more of that in another post.
I’m not going to name the bright sparks of the Catholic tradition in the C of E who are planning to join the Ordinariate: it would make life difficult for them at a sensitive moment, particularly as some of them are attached to institutions whose own future in Anglicanism is looking doubtful. The important thing is that they believe that the intellectual case for traditional Anglo-Catholicism is no longer tenable….
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Damian Thompson–The Ordinariate has got Anglican and Catholic mediocrities seriously rattled
I suspect that the future of the Ordinariate lies elsewhere: with bright younger Anglo-Catholic clergy, some of them scholars, and with thousands of committed lay people who already belong to “gathered congregations” ”“ that is, who are used to worshipping at a church that suits them rather than just attending their local parish. This is an increasingly common pattern of worship throughout Catholicism, Anglicanism and the Evangelical world, not just some picky Anglo-Catholic habit. Another significant pattern is church-planting, which the Catholic Church in England has been really bad at until now”¦ but more of that in another post.
I’m not going to name the bright sparks of the Catholic tradition in the C of E who are planning to join the Ordinariate: it would make life difficult for them at a sensitive moment, particularly as some of them are attached to institutions whose own future in Anglicanism is looking doubtful. The important thing is that they believe that the intellectual case for traditional Anglo-Catholicism is no longer tenable….
Read it all.