THE P
RTAL
is the monthly review of the Personal Ordinariates
of Our Lady of Walsingham and Our Lady of the Southern Cross
Registered Address: 56 Woodlands Farm Road, Birmingham B24 0PG – www.portalmag.co.uk
Editors: Ronald Crane (Editor-in-Chief), Jackie Ottaway (UK) – [email protected]
Neil Fryer (Australia) – [email protected]
Editorial Board: Len Black, David Chapman, Gill James, Aidan Nichols, Cyril Wood
Observer: Catherine Utley
February 2014
Contents
3 Portal Editorial
Will Burton reflects
4 Auntie Joanna writes ...
Joana Bogle DSG
5 Snapdragon
An instrument of Unity
6 A - Z of the Catholic Faith
Fr Stephen Wang – M
7 The Popes & the Ordinariate
Harry Schnitker
X News from Australia and the UK
Volume 4 Issue 38
News from Australia
AU-1 News Roundup
Eliza Frank
AU-2 Faith - the possibilities
Fr Ramsay Williams OLSC
AU-4 Ordinariate Groups
Mass times Australia-wide
News from the UK
UK-i
London (South)
Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
UK-3 Newman
Stephen Morgan
8 The St Barnabas Society
Jackie Ottaway
UK-4 Anglican News
10 CTS Book Review
UK-5 Ordinariate Groups
11 Letter to the Editor
UK-7 UK Groups News
12 New Pope, New Doctrine?
Geoffrey Kirk
The Revd Paul Benfield
where to find us at prayer
from around the UK
UK-8 Ordinary’s Diary & Pilgrimage
Contributors
◊◊ Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane are members of the
Ordinariate of OLW
◊◊ Joanna Bogle DSG is a well known Catholic Journalist
◊◊ Snapdragon travels from his home in the UK Midlands
◊◊ Fr Stephen Wang is Senior Chaplain to the Catholic
Chaplaincy to the Universities of London
◊◊ Geoffrey Kirk is an Ordinariate member in South London
◊◊ Stephen Morgan lives in the New Forest, works in
Portsmouth and studies in Oxford
◊◊ Harry Schnitker is an academic at Maryvale Institut
◊◊ The Revd Paul Benfield is Vicar of Saint Nicholas
Fleetwood and a member of the CofE General Synod
◊◊ Fr Ramsay Williams, OLSC, is the Rector of the Ordinariate
parish of St Edmund Campion, Melbourne, Australia
◊◊ Adrian Lanagan is an active member of the Catholic parish
at Frankston, Melbourne Australia
◊◊ Eliza Frank is a member of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of
the Southern Cross