De Cura Animarum: Three Former Anglican Bishops Receive the Title Monsignor

Thursday, 17 March 2011

Three Former Anglican Bishops Receive the Title Monsignor

The Pope has honoured three former Anglican bishops, the first members of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, with the title of monsignor.

Fr Keith Newton, the leader of the Ordinariate who has most of the functions of a bishop, and Fr John Broadhurst, the former Bishop of Fulham, have been granted the papal award of Apostolic Pronotary, the highest ecclesial title for non-bishops. Fr Andrew Burnham, the former Bishop of Ebbsfleet, has been granted the papal award of Prelate of Honour, and is therefore also a monsignor.

Catholic Herald

2 comments:

Maurice said...: Great news. It's protonotary. ;); 17 March 2011 17:29
Alice C. Linsley said...: All good men. I'm glad for them. Some of the good ones came into Orthodoxy, for which I'm glad also.

I'm reminded of a quaint expression among the farmers here. Pile the manure in one place and it stinks. Spread it far and wide and it does a lot of good. That goes for good Christians too! :); 23 March 2011 23:12

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"I was once, five or six years ago, taken by some friends to have dinner with Mary McCarthy and her husband, Mr. Broadwater... She departed the Church at the age of 15 and is a Big Intellectual. We went at eight and at one, I hadn't opened my mouth once, there being nothing for me in such company to say... Having me there was like having a dog present who had been trained to say a few words but overcome with inadequacy had forgotten them. Well, toward morning the conversation turned on the Eucharist, which I, being the Catholic, was obviously supposed to defend. Mrs. Broadwater said when she was a child and received the host, she thought of it as the Holy Ghost, He being the most portable person of the Trinity; now she thought of it as a symbol and implied that it was a pretty good one. I then said, in a very shaky voice, Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it. That was all the defense I was capable of but I realize now that this is all I will ever be able to say about it, outside of a story, except that it is the center of existence for me; all the rest of life is expendable."

- Flannery O'Connor