The Portal - Australia edition February 2014 | Page 8

THE P RTAL February 2014 AU Page 1 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