The Portal December 2017 | Page 2

THE P RTAL is the monthly review of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham December 2017 Volume 7 Issue 84 Contents Page 3 P ortal Comment – The Editors Page 4 Celebrate the Seasons! – Joanna Bogle Page 5 Toads Revisited – Snapdragon Page 6 The first and second Josephs – Fr Mark Woodruff Page 7 8,894,355 killed in the womb – Lord David Alton Page 9 Ordinariate Blogs – Will Burton Page 9 Ordinariate Retreat at Walsingham Page 10 Thoughts on Newman – Revd Dr Stephen Morgan Page 11 Anglican News – The Revd Paul Benfield Page 12 Visit to Torbay – Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane Page 14 Finding us at prayer – around the UK Page 16 The Ordinary’s Diary Page 17 News from the Ordinariate around the UK Page 18 An Appeal – Mgr Harry Entwistle Page 19 Our Lady of Caversham – Thomas Prince Page 20 Aid to the Church in Need – Murcadha O Flaherty Page 21 The Life Charity – Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane Page 23 Letters to the Editor Page 24 The European Union and Abortion – Geoffrey Kirk