Less than a year after it was established, the ordinariate for former Anglicans seeking to join the Catholic Church in the United States has grown to include 1500 individuals, 35 communities and 24 priests. The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter has also had a five-acre property, worth $NZ6 million, donated to it Read more
The only blended Catholic and Episcopal parish in the United States has been told it must change its worship services so Catholics and non-Catholics go to separate rooms for the Eucharist. The decision by the Catholic diocese of Richmond in Virginia has upset parishioners who have worshipped side by side, with co-pastors, in a blended Read more
The Revs. Chuck Hough IV and Chuck Hough III have more in common than just their names. The two have become a rarity in the Catholic Church — a father and son ordained Catholic priests at the same time. Both men are both former Episcopal priests, each with a wife and children, CNN reports. Continue Read more
The Rev. Mark Lewis awoke early on the last morning of his life as an Anglican priest and dressed in a suit and tie instead of his usual priestly regalia. That’s different, he thought, for the first of many times on a day when so much was different for St. Luke’s, the small Episcopal church Read more