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November 2011
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RTAL
is an independent review in the service of the Ordinariate
56 Woodlands Farm Road, Birmingham B24 0PG - [email protected]
The Magazine is free and may be downloaded at www.portalmag.co.uk
Editorial Board: Ronald Crane, Aidan Nichols, Jackie Ottaway,
Gill James, David Chapman, Cyril Wood and Len Black
Advisor: Mark Woodruff
The Portal is grateful to The Catholic League and Cost of Conscience for their financial assistance
November 2011
Volume 1 Issue 11
Contents
3 PORTAL NEWS – 19 National Assemblies! – Dr Gill James
4 Leytonstone and Wanstead – Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
6 Recusant Martyr – The 85 Martyrs – Joanna Bogle
7 Anglican Luminary – Richard Hooker – Keith Robinson
8 Snapdragon – Two conversations, a Cardinal & Christmas!
9 Ordinary’s Page – Monsignor Keith Newton writes
10 Termination of pregnancy – Dr Chris Davies
12 The Beatus and the Brute – Br Sean of The Work
13 Letters to the Editor
14 Pilgrimage to Rome and Ordinariate Diaries
15 Book Review – Blessed John Paul the Great
16 Fr Peter’s Page – “Life is short... Waste it not in vanities...”
Contributors
◊ ◊ Dr Gill James is on the National Council of Forward in Faith ◊ ◊ Dr Chris Davies is a GP in the West Midlands
◊ ◊ Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane are members of the
Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham ◊ ◊ Laura Magson is our regular reviewer of books
◊ ◊ Joanna Bogle is a Catholic journalist and writer ◊ ◊ Monsignor Keith Newton is the Ordinary of the
Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
◊ ◊ Keith Robinson is the priest of the Salisbury
Ordinariate Group
◊ ◊ Snapdragon is a priest of the Ordinariate
◊ ◊ Br Sean is a member of The Work at Littlemore
◊ ◊ Peter Geldard is the Catholic Chaplain at the
University of Kent in Canterbury