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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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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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Does the Ordinariate have parishes?
The Ordinariate will, in the future, have parishes where it has groups of members. These will be 'personal' parishes and not 'territorial' like a diocesan parish.
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How did Pope Benedict XVI help to create the Ordinariate?
In September 2010, the Holy Father was keen to stress that the Apostolic Constitution "should be seen as a prophetic gesture that can contribute positively to the developing relations between Anglicans and Catholics".