THE P RTAL
March 2014
Page 3
Editorial
Will Burton reflects
Good News 1
To start with the good news: wonderful to see that
we now have Cardinal Vincent Nichols as the leader
of Catholics in England and Wales, and Cardinal
Gerhard Ludwig Müller in charge at the CDF. We are
doubly blest.
Recently, Cardinal Müller has generously welcomed
The Portal to the CDF and is a great supporter of the
Ordinariates and our own Ordinaries.
Good News 2
Cardinal Nichols has agreed to attend and speak at
our first Annual Festival on Saturday 20th September
2014 at Westminster Cathedral Hall, an event for
all members of the Ordinariate of OLW. Mark your
Diary now!
Good News 3
Another date for your Diary is Saturday 6th
September 2014 when the whole Ordinariate of OLW
is holding an Exploration Day “where you are”. More
details in due course, but the date is the 6th September
and the purpose of the day is for Ordinariate Groups
to arrange an event so that others may find out about
us. This will mean local events for local people in
Ordinariate groups throughout the UK from the
Highlands of Scotland to Cornwall!
Good News 4
Yet more good news concerns the three Ordinaries:
Mgr Keith Newton, Mgr Jeffrey Steenson of the
Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter (USA and
Canada) and Mgr Harry Entwistle of the Ordinariate
of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (Australia), who
recently met in Rome for discussions and meetings
with various people in the Vatican.
As Monsignor Keith said:
“Each Ordinariate is different, but we share a
common goal and a lot of the challenges we face
are common ones, so this was a good opportunity
to meet and discuss where we all are and how we
might help each other and learn from each other’s
experiences in the future. The idea is that we should
meet perhaps once a year from now on”.
The three Ordinaries (and others) with Cardinal Müller
Not so Good News 1
Readers of the Daily Telegraph on Monday 24th
February will have been alarmed to learn from
an article on page seven, that bursaries for people
studying to teach RE are being scrapped from
September 2014. As John Keast, Chairman of the
Religious Education Council of England and Wales
said, “(it is) hard to avoid the conclusion that
the refusal to give bursaries to RE trainees while
providing them for nearly every other subject is pure
discrimination by the Government against RE.”
Not so Good News 2
On the same page the Telegraph carried an equally
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