Mr Broadhurst\u2019s wife, Judi, and Mr Newton\u2019s wife, Gill, were also among the lay people and former Anglican clergy being received into the RC Church. Three nuns who left the Priory of our Lady of Walsingham last month, after announcing plans to join the Ordinariate, were also re\u00c2\u00adceived. No details were released about the total numbers received at the service.<\/p>\n
A few days earlier, Mr Broadhurst told The Times: \u201cI know people will join the Ordinariate. . . There are lots of laity on their own and priests on their own; the question is how do we relate them both to the Ordinariate and to the English Catholic Church, because it is part of the Catholic Church in this country; it\u2019s not a separate thing.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Two retired bishops, the Rt Revd Edwin Barnes and the Rt Revd David Silk, also announced their intention to leave the Church of England to join the Ordinariate. The RC Bishops\u2019 statement said that they would \u201cbe received into full communion with the Catholic Church and pro\u00c2\u00adceed to Ordination as Catholic Priests in due course\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n