Yesterday, Rev Andrew Burnham celebrated his Mass at the Oxford Oratory with Fr Aidan Nichols OP preaching (here is a link to his sermon). Fr Hunwicke has a report which includes details of the "common sense and mutual enrichment" that was evident in the celebration. For more pictures, see the Ordinariate Portal post. I recognised a number of good friends there.
4 comments:
I am interested that you call Fr Andrew Burnham *Rev* despite his ordination as a Catholic Priest, yet you award Fr Hunwicke the dignity of a title you would probably not yet accept. I hope that priests of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham are not already being treated as something *different*.
Well strictly speaking and traditionally, secular clergy are not Father but Reverend (one lawyer I know recently told me he was going to call priest "Sir John" etc. as was the older practice in England.)
But I'm not always consistent in this and there was no particular implication meant in the difference.
I'm not in favour of denying such titles to Anglican clergy since it can end up just being unnecessarily insulting.
Wouldn't calling someone Father imply they posses valid ordinations?
I don't think so - "Father" is not really a title as such, it indicates a pastoral relationship. I am happy to use it for Anglo-Catholic clergy as a matter of courtesy.
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