THE
P RTAL
August 2018
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How you might support
the Ordinariate Cause
An interesting initiative reported by Simon Dennerly
P art of
the growing pains that all three Ordinariates are still going through is financial but despite
this our ministries contribute far more to the wider Catholic Church than our numbers would suggest.
One area of ministry the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (OLSC) is passionate about
is the Pro-Life movement, in the tradition of the Anglo-Catholic slum priests helping the most vulnerable
in society.
Little did we know that OLSC’s new ‘Pro-Life action
policy’ would allow the opportunity for Ordinariate
supporters, on three continents, to give much needed
financial help - and at no cost to them.
Enter Real Estate for Life: a not-for-profit
international Pro-Life charity with over 900 agents in
the English-speaking world. People looking to buy or
sell real estate contact them and they refer you on to
one of their agents, and in turn donate apart of their
fee to a Pro-Life cause of your choice at no cost to you:
and this now includes the Personal Ordinariate of Our
Lady of the Southern Cross.
The donation is a referral fee the agent pays, and
it works out roughly as $1,000 for every $150,000
of the transaction. The real estate agents work for
commercial agencies throughout the UK, USA,
Canada, Australia and more, meaning members
and supporters of the Personal Ordinariates who are
buying and selling property can help the Ordinariate
cause at no cost to them.
activists talk about “choice” the reality is that many
women and adolescent females have terminations
as they are pressured into it by either their partners
or parents who do not wish to support their child or
grand-child. Many of those who use Pro-Life services
had to walk away from loved ones to save the life of
their unborn child.
Proceeds from these donations are earmarked
towards OLSC’s Australia-wide multi-staged Pro-
Life action plan with a focus on supporting Catholic
Sadly the Pro-Abortion side receives astronomic
groups who do pregnancy assistance (mainly involving amounts of money, including government funding:
on-going support after the baby is born), and OLSC’s where the Pro-Life cause in comparison receives only
seminary fund.
a tiny fraction- more akin to guerrillas taking on a
super power.
Most of OLSC’s much needed next generation of
clergy are young laymen going through seven years
This is the genius of Real Estate for Life, as it provides
of seminary formation, which is quite costly. In their desperately needed funding to organisations doing
formation our seminarians will receive training, to Pro-Life work.
have a good knowledge and keep up to date with Pro-
Life issues.
So readers of T he P ortal , if you are buying or selling
real estate we hope you might consider using Real
Anglo-Catholicism has always had a major focus on Estate for Life and supporting the Personal Ordinariate
evangelical charity and assisting those in need. The of Our Lady of the Southern Cross as we proclaim the
women who would use Pro-Life services are often Gospel of Christ- and the Gospel of Life.
alone and with few resources. For all Pro-Abortion
Visit www.realestateforlife.org