THE
P RTAL
May 2016
Joanna Bogle DSG has been thinking
about the history of the Ordinariate
When the
Auntie Jo a n
The Ordinariate
and the
ordination
of women
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history of the Ordinariate is written, and the tales are told of how things were in the
early days, and the challenges overcome, and the things that were achieved, there will also be debates
about just how the whole project began.
Whether we like it or not, we have to accept that
one starting-point was the decision of the Church of
England to ordain women. Of course, in another sense,
the Ordinariate has its roots in the Oxford Movement
of the 19th century, and in the writings of Blessed John
Henry Newman and in the journey that he made and
the path that he blazed. Or, again, it could be said that
perhaps in a completely different sense, one s х