Stephen Bullivant on 'How To Save The English Church'.
Photo: Giovanni Portelli/The Catholic Weekly N.B. — Dear Bishops of England, please open your hearts and consider offering your vacant parish churches to the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Just as certain parish church buildings have been given to Extraordinary Form communities , and are thriving, so too the Ordinariate could receive the gift of a parish church and offer to all Catholics in a given area the beauty and goodness of the Ordinariate Mass and the richness of the Ordinariate Catholic experience, an experience that configures to the spirit and letter of the Second Vatican Council. T he Ordinariate can lovingly preserve a building consecrated to the worship of God, a house built by families who offered their time and resources to build and sustain a parish home. The Ordinariate has the priests to help preserve that home for area Catholics. + + + An excerpt from an article by Stephen Bullivant at The Catholic Herald: How To Save The En...