The cardinal suggested this Wednesday when he spoke at a fundraising event for the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. This is the first of the ordinariates established for former Anglicans and is based in England. Others are in the process of being developed in the United States and in other countries.
According to the U.K. Catholic Herald, Cardinal Levada said the Vatican views the ordinariate in a similar way to the Ambrosian Rite, an ancient form of the liturgy used by about 5 million Catholics.
The cardinal said the ordinariate “is really his [the Pope’s] project,” and described it as an “important new structure in the Church,” the Catholic Herald reported. “We all want to give the support of our prayers to the ordinariate.”
