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Pastoral Letters
December 18, 2025
Bishop David Waller
Pastoral Letter | December 2025
Dear friends, When my nieces were young they always enjoyed having stories read to them; to this day I can remember the names of all the farmyard animals who...
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Reflections
December 10, 2025
Bishop David Waller
Bishop David reflects on the Convert Clergy Report
British Catholics should welcome the newly published report commissioned by the St Barnabas Society and written by Stephen Bullivant; Fernanda Mee and Janet Mellor...
May 20, 2025
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May 22, 2025
Ordinariate Festival 2025
Every year we gather our whole community together for our festival, an experience of fellowship, worship and unity.
The Catholic Parish of Chapelfields & Earlsdon, Kingsland Avenue, Coventry, CV5 8DX
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What liturgy do the members of the Ordinariate celebrate?
The Ordinariate celebrates the liturgy according to those liturgical books of the Anglican tradition which have been adapted and approved by the Holy See, as well as the Roman Rite.
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Do Anglicans who want to become Catholic have to join the Ordinariate?
The Holy Father's offer of a Personal Ordinariate for Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church is a generous and pastoral response to the desire of Anglicans for unity with the See of Peter. 
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Are members of the Ordinariate still Anglicans?
Members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham are Catholics of the Latin Rite, within the full communion of the Catholic Church. By civil law they are known, as all Catholics in England and Wales are known, as 'Roman Catholics'. However, their heritage and traditions mean that they are Catholics from the Anglican Tradition.