See preceding page for earlier entries on 4/5/11.
A few days late, but I just saw this item with photos and a few more details about the audience granted by thE Holy Fzather on April to the Ordinary of the first Personal Ordinariate for returning Anglicans... From the site of the Ordina5iate
www.ordinariate.org.uk/index.htm
Mons. Newton meets
with Pope Benedict XVI
1st April 2011
Cardinal Levada presents Mons. Newton to the Pope.
Monsignor Keith Newton, Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, was received in a private audience on April 1 y His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI.
During a scheduled visit to the Holy See, Mgr Newton met with the Holy Father and presented him a collection of the photographs of the Ordinariate groups which have been published on this website and the first ordinations.
Mons. Newton was accompanied by Bishop Alan Hopes,the Episcopal Delegate of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England & Wales for the implementation of the Apostolic Constitution
Anglicanorum coetibus, and the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, William Cardinal Levada.
Monsignors Newton and Hope also presented the Pope with a copy of Fr Michael Rear's new book about pilgrimage to Walsingham, and an image of Our Lady of Walsingham.
It was the first time that Mons. Newton had met with the Holy Father since his nomination as Ordinary of the first Personal Ordinariate in January this year.
During his time in Rome, Mgr Newton has been attending meetings and engagements to aid the ongoing establishment of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
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