THE P
RTAL
is the monthly review of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
56 Woodlands Farm Road, Birmingham B24 0PG - [email protected]
The Magazine is free and may be downloaded from www.portalmag.co.uk
Editorial Board: Ronald Crane, David Chapman, Jackie Ottaway, Cyril Wood,
Aidan Nichols, Len Black Assoc Editor: Gill James Advisor: Mark Woodruff
T he P ortal is grateful to The Catholic League and other generous supporters for their financial assistance
March 2013
Volume 3 Issue 27
Contents
3 LEAD STORY : Shock & Surprise – Will Burton
4 Hop Picking In Kent? – Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
6 Auntie Joanna writes . . . Don’t be intimidated
7 Anglican Luminary : C. S. Lewis – Fr Keith Robinson
8 Snapdragon – Oh my goodness!
9 Ordinary’s Page – Monsignor John Broadhurst writes
10 The A - Z of the Catholic Faith:
B
– Fr Stephen Wang
11 Here am I Lord – Jackie Ottaway talks to Simon Bedford
12 Following the King – Laura Magson on Fr David Mawson’s book
13 Pembury in Kent – Harry Schnitker
14 Newman : Safely lodged in the Barque of Peter – Br Sean
15 Ordinariate Groups – where to find us at prayer
17 Misunderstandings addressed by The Friends! – Catherine Utley
18 Day of Faith – at St Patrick’s Church, Soho Square, London W1
x Pluscarden Abbey – 100th Anniversary of reception into the Catholic Church
19 The Ordinary’s Diary
20 Fr Peter’s Page – Habemus Papam
Contributors
◊ ◊ Will Burton walks the Old Bedford Level at Welney
◊ ◊ Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane are members of the
Ordinariate
◊ ◊ Joanna Bogle – Auntie Joanna – is a Catholic Journalist
◊ ◊ Fr Keith Robinson is the priest of the Salisbury Group
◊ ◊ Snapdragon watches a lot of Television in the Midlands
◊ ◊ Mgr John Broadhurst is an Assistant Ordinary
◊ ◊ Fr Stephen Wang is dean of studies at Allen Hall Seminary
◊ ◊ Harry Schnitker is an academic at Maryvale Institute.
◊ ◊ Brother Sean of The Work, lives in Oxford
◊ ◊ Catherine Utley is the fund-raising co-ordinator, of the
Friends of the Ordinariate
◊ ◊ Laura Magson is a member of the Ordinariate in Sutton
Coldfield
◊ ◊ Fr Peter Geldard is the Catholic Chaplain at the University
of Kent in Canterbury