50 Anglican priests to quit CofE for Rome over women bishops

From The London Telegraph-

The Pope’s new Catholic group for disaffected Anglicans – which is known as the Ordinariate - will begin operation in the new year.

The Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, said he did not feel “guilty” that some Anglican parishes would be left without vicars as a result of the conversions.
He said the Catholic Church in England and Wales would provide £250,000 in start-up funding for the Ordinariate and seek to raise more money from donations and sponsors to cover its running costs.

Pope Benedict XVI offered to set up the Ordinariate in “response to requests” from Anglicans who could not accept liberal reforms in the Church of England, he said.

"This is not a process of rivalry or competition between our two churches,” he said. “So I do not feel guilty.”

Five bishops announced last week that they will be among the first to resign from the Church of England join the Ordinarate.

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