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Pope Benedict was a committed but principled ecumenist who didn’t believe in a shallow ecumenism but one that was firmly grounded in the Scriptures, the Fathers and the ancient Councils of the Church.

The Anglicanorum Coetibus Society joins the countless millions of people around the world mourning the death earlier today of Pope Benedict XVI, the founder of the ordinariates for Catholics of the Anglican tradition.

The latest issue of our ACS journal, Shared Treasure (Volume V, No. 2) is now sent to ACS members, with print and Kindle copies available for purchase at Amazon. We have also published five volumes of Shared Treasure / Anglican Embers issues available for purchase at Amazon.

Msgr. Michael Nazir-Ali, former Anglican bishop of Rochester and now a Catholic priest of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, reflects on the past year since his reception into the Catholic Church.

This is the December 2022 edition of The Portal magazine, the monthly review of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

The Ordinariate form of Mass has an evangelizing force, even among those who are non-native English speakers, and they discover in it the gift of faith and the universality of the Catholic Church.

Msgr. Michael Nazir-Ali discusses with Anglican Ink his fight against extremism in Pakistan, his thoughts on synodality, and his ecumenical work that includes a course on Anglicanism in Rome.

EXCERPT: "I realized my vow could not be broken as a priest because I swore to uphold 'The Doctrine of this church,' where no doctrine existed on purgatory and like matters. A few weeks later I walked into a Catholic Church. A few weeks later I called up the Ordinariate. I laid down my Anglican 'Orders' and joined Catechesis to learn what The Faith, as passed down from Jesus, had to say about Purgatory and other matters. All Souls is still one of my favorite Holy Days."

Bishop Steven J. Lopes of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter delivers a powerful invitation for people to join the Catholic Church's effort to ensure the protection of life in all conditions and stages, from conception to natural death.

EXCERPT: "Most importantly of all, I find Divine Worship Daily Office (Commonwealth Edition) to be an exceptionally prayerful book – and this is, ultimately, the whole point of the book. It is a book of prayer. It is intended that we use it several times every day – even if only for the greater Hours of Morning and Evening Prayer – and the sheer prayerfulness of the book makes it far more likely that we will continue in using it for prayer. It expresses that prayer beautifully, in my opinion."

Ordinariate members are getting ready to walk the last section of the famed El Camino pilgrimage in Spain over the course of seven days from May 25 to June 1.

This is the October 2022 edition of The Portal Magazine, the monthly review of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Former Anglican Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali was received into the Catholic Church in 2021 and ordained as a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

"Convinced Catholicism" reviews "Divine Worship: Daily Office" on its YouTube channel as a Breviary made for the Anglican Patrimony of the Catholic Church.

For 70 years, Queen Elizabeth II provided a moral and Christian voice in the world, and shared the message of the Gospel, particularly through her Christmas broadcasts.

This report summarizes the synodal diocesan phase undertaken by the U.K. Ordinariate as part of the global Synod on Synodality.

The new group in Aberdeen celebrates a monthly Mass and is one of five locations where the Scottish Ordinariate can be found.

East Tennessee Ordinariate members celebrated a Divine Worship Mass with schola at St. Joseph's School Chapel in Knoxville.

Inspired by the successful Evensongs in the Shenandoah Valley, an ACS member is organizing an Evensong in the heart of Central Virginia.

After nearly 3 years, CUA Press has finally published the proceedings of the Anglicanorum Coetibus Conference in Rome in October 2019.