Letters

Anglican Ordinariate

Bishop Harry Entwhistle

Contents - Oct 2011 - Buy a copy now Angelus Message: Our Lady of the Rosary (October 7) - Pope Benedict XVI Episcopacy: Cardinal Pell: the responsibilities of Church leadership - Cardinal George Pell World Youth Day 2011, Madrid: Australia's participation - Br Barry Coldrey News: The Church Around the World Pastoral care: One of the Catholic Church's best kept secrets - Marie Mason Pro-life: Signs of hope from the United States - Babette Francis Planetary spirituality: what next! - Frank Mobbs History: Lepanto, history's most decisive naval battle - Bob Denahy Catholic Schools: Saint Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga: progress report - Sr Mary Augustine OP Letters: Anglican Ordinariate - Bishop Harry Entwhistle Letters: World Youth Day - Arnold Jago Letters: Bishop Morris - Michael Smith Letters: One-sided - Charles M. Shann Letters: Old or young earth? - Fr Brian Harrison OS Letters: Cart before horse - John Young Letters: Genesis debate - Anne Lastman Letters: Pre-Vatican II - Kevin McManus Letters: Same sex 'marriage' - Richard Congram Letters: Invalid concept - Robert Prinzen-Wood Letters: Sermons - Rev. Fr. J. Conway Books: BENEDICT XVI: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Tracey Rowland - Michael Daniel (reviewer) Books: ROME AND THE EASTERN CHURCHES: A Study in Schism (2nd ed), Aidan Nichols OP - Michael Daniel (reviewer) Books: MEDJUGORJE REVISITED: 30 Years of Visions or Religious Fraud? - Michael Gilchrist (reviewer) Donations: 2011 Fighting Fund contributions Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au Reflection: Benedict XVI's Final Mass homily for World Youth Day - Pope Benedict XVI

Michael Apthorp raised the question in the August issue of whether Bishop Peter Elliott has drawn the wrong conclusion regarding whether Catholics baptised outside the Ordinariate could become members of the Ordinariate.

Bishop Elliott is not mistaken. The Ordinariate will be in full organic union with the Catholic Church and therefore any Catholic is free to worship in an Ordinariate group and receive the sacraments. Similarly, any member of the Ordinariate will be able to receive Catholic sacraments in any Catholic Church in the world.

However, membership of an Ordinariate group is restricted to those reconciled to the Catholic Church through the Ordinariate, unless he or she is a baptised Catholic who belongs to a family which has members belonging to the Ordinariate.

The distinction is between those who may worship with an Ordinariate group, and that is any Catholic in the world, and those who are eligible to be 'signed up' members of the Ordinariate.

I hope this clarifies the matter.

BISHOP HARRY ENTWISTLE
Mount Lawley, WA

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 24 No 9 (October 2011), p. 13