THE P RTAL
February 2014
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Australia News Briefs
Eliza Frank
The following news briefs arrived on the Ordinariate
Australia news desk from a reliable computer news
sources, and I thought I’d share them with you.
Ecumenical News
The Canadian Catholic Church has expressed the
hope that the Anglican Church of Canada would
seek the in-put from the other members of various
Churches at an ecumenical group meeting about to
take place.
dumb-down Baptism liturgy
sixteen school girls
An experimental Baptism liturgy of the Church
The Choir of Canterbury Cathedral, England,
of England appears to “dumb-down” the traditional has moved forward in time and broken the ancient
beliefs by removing the requirement to “Repent of sins tradition of the English Patrimony by allowing the
and Reject the devil.”
inclusion of sixteen school girls to be part of the once
all male choir.
New Zealand Catholics
For the first time in the history of New Zealand, cricket match
after a recent Church census, it was discovered that
The Vatican and the Anglican Communion have
the Catholic Church population now outnumbers all accepted the challenge of their first cricket match.
other Christian denominations.
There has been no further news . . . and so we ask: Did
the match take place? Who won?
100th birthday
The Rev’d Elizabeth
Alfred celebrated her
100th birthday on the 10th
January 2014. Elizabeth
was the first lady to be
ordained a priest of the
Anglican Church in the
Diocese of Melbourne in
1992.
Faith – the possibilities
Fr Ramsay Williams, OLSC
I
magine we
were able to go back in time two hundred years taking with us copies of today’s
newspapers. If we gave a newspaper to someone who lived in that time, how much of it, I wonder, would
they understand?
like reading a foreign language
language.
Experts say that people in the early 19th century
probably would not understand enough to make sense
Think for a moment of just a few words commonly
of it. Although they might consider English to be used in the English language today which would be
their native tongue, it would be like reading a foreign incomprehensible to someone two hundred years