I understand the ordinariate there is already using it.
- Fr Ray Blake. Giving the old libs a taste of their own medicine.
- The Bishop of Leeds.
As Damian Thompson tells you, they’ve got their hands full with the ‘Magic Circle’ clergy and lay apparatchiki, their AmChurch (this crap besets Catholics in Protestant countries), but because I was looking for high church I could find it there back in the ’80s: the Brompton Oratory doing R² in baroque Italian style when it wasn’t cool, the Ronald Knox Society using the nobly simple space (built for the old religion so it works) at Blackfriars, Opus Dei at Grandpont House like something out of Brideshead Revisited, of course helped along by Knox-like converts from Anglo-Catholicism (19th-century Catholicism in style, in English).
The ordinariate is just another way to keep that going (much of it’s long been run-of-the-mill Novus but before that, there was that tradition of good style) and seems the Pope’s prototype for the new liturgical movement.
Some Catholic types there: the discreet, genteel ‘Old Catholics’ (not the liberal rump sect based in Holland; old rich recusant families who could afford to pay fines to keep the old religion, to themselves); the enthusiastic (ha ha, Mgr Knox) ex-Anglo-Catholics like Fr Faber (the oratory’s founder); lots of Irish workers in big cities and now Polish workers.
My Catholic Truth Society RSV is my go-to Bible.
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