THE P RTAL
March 2014
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The Popes
and the Ordinariate
by Harry Schnitker
Ihave already
written for The Portal on the close relationship and mutual respect between the
Papacy and the Anglo-Saxon world. The Anglo-Saxon Church was the first missionary daughter of Rome,
and itself had provided Rome with many of its missionaries in Germany and beyond. In Rome itself, the very
large Anglo-Saxon community looked after pilgrims from home, and enjoyed extensive privileges.
This close association began
to unravel during the el