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1. What a refreshing bit of news! The Holy Spirit is indeed alive and well.
   The part that stood out most for me was Dr Edward Norman’s eloquent referral to Christian unity…
   “Preserving those gifts and enriching them with the peace and communion offered by union with the successor of Peter is the most natural course of action for Anglicans who have a genuine desire for Christian unity.”
   I think we, cradle Catholics, must take note of this. Christian unity should not mean lowering our standards to accommodate non-Catholics.
   Every high profile Catholic evangelist I know of has converted from Protestantism precisely for those very same Catholic beliefs we seem so ready to compromise, i.e. The Pope, Our Lady, The Eucharist, etc.
   Why does it have to take non-Catholics to show us how precious our Catholic faith really is?
   Thank God for the workings of the Holy Spirit and for those like Dr Norman who respond to His guidance.
   May we, likewise, follow the direction of God’s Holy Spirit in our own lives.

   Posted By: Peter Shafton

2. “... to adhere to the Catholic faith is to join the encompassing presence of a universal body of believers in whose guardianship are the materials of authentic spiritual understanding… '
   I very much appreciate Dr Norman's wording here.
   I'm sorry that the spokesman for the Ordinariate chose to change his idea slightly, referring to union with the successor of Peter rather than union with 'universal body of believers in whose guardianship...'
   In any case, welcome, Dr Norman. I hope we don't disappoint you at this stage of your own journey.

   Posted By: Joan Seymour

3. While welcoming those who regard Catholicism as better suited to their theology, it needs also to be said that Peter Norman led the attack against liberation theology in his Reith lectures long before that topic evoked a negative reaction from the Vatican.
   Moreover, when Anglicans become Roman Catholics, and given the torrid circumstances of the Reformation, it's hard not to deduce that politics has as much to do with it as faith.
   My own sense and fear is that it is the incidentally High Church but conservative branch of Anglicanism, rather than its socially libertarian Anglo-Catholic wing, that now constitutes the majority of Ordinariate members, and that in the end its theology will be indistinguishable from that of the reactionary Lefebrist Church of Econne.
   While praying for Christian unity, we should accordingly never lose sight of the fact that Low Church conservative fundamentalists generally regard Catholics as beyond redemption, otherwise the new evangelisation would be nothing more than an agreed 'ecumenical' strategy for waging war against a theologically open and progressive World.

   Posted By: Michael Furtado

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