When King Henry VIII broke with Rome and became the head of the Church of England in 1534, he ruptured centuries worth of religious tradition and practice developed between the English and the Latin ...

LONDON — Nearly 14 years after Pope Benedict XVI set up a canonical structure for former Anglicans to come into communion with the Catholic Church while retaining their distinctive Anglican patrimony, ...

The Holy See directed last week that the oldest Catholic parish of the Anglican Use, located in San Antonio, will be transferred from the local archdiocese into the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair ...

LONDON-- The first personal ordinariate created for former Anglicans who decided to enter the Catholic Church will reach almost 1,000 by the end of the Easter Vigil. The count of people entering the ...

REPUBLIC — Father Chori Seraiah is a priest in the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, a special type of diocese, completely Catholic in every way, for Roman Catholics who were previously ...

WASHINGTON -- How are the new U.S. Catholic ordinariate for former Anglican groups and the 1980 U.S. pastoral provision for Episcopal (Anglican) priests who become Catholics different? What do they ...

Following this morning’s publication by the bishops of England and Wales of a detailed Q&A about the forthcoming Ordinariate – see previous post — I sat down with the bishops’ conference ...

I’m filing for next week’s America on the world’s first Ordinariate, which is swelling in these days from 20 members to over 1,000 (including 64 priests) as former Anglicans are received into the ...

At ease in front of the altar at Holy Ghost Catholic Church, the priest offered a plain and reassuring invitation, like the proprietor of a storefront museum beckoning passersby into the mysterious ...

Just a couple of weeks ago at the beginning of February a conference was held in Queensland that if not for the impact of floods and cyclones, may have stirred the breezes of another storm ...

Pope Francis appointed Right Reverend Wallace Ng’ang’a as Bishop of Military Ordinariate on August 15, 2024. Until his appointment, Bishop Ng’ang’a was the Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese ...

Turn down “Shadyvilla,” an unassuming residential street in Houston, and you will be greeted by a surprising sight: an imposing white stone neo-Gothic church that wouldn’t be out of place in ...