50 pages, 8.5" x 11", saddle-stitch binding, full-color.
A faithful translation of the Ordinal promulgated by Paul VI in 1968, with the texts revised in 1989 highlighted for study & comparison. Rubrics are in red, with translation on the facing page.
DOCVMENTA de ordinationibus ritu Anglicano peractis:
Documents Related to the Anglican Orders Controversy
Litterae Apostolicae De Ordinationibus Anglicanis (The Letter "Apostolicae Curae" of Pope Leo XIII - Latin & English - in progress)
Responsio Archiepiscoporum Angliae ad Litteras Apostolicas Leonis Papae XIII De Ordinationibus Anglicanis ("Saepius Officio", or the reply to A.C. by the Anglican Archbishops - Latin & English - in progress).
This document is now available at the Project Canterbury website.
Epistola Ad Archiepiscopos Angliae (Leo's reply to the Anglican Archbishops - Latin & English - in progress).
This document is now available at the Project Canterbury website.
"A Vindication of the Bull 'Apostolicae Curae' - A Letter on Anglican Orders by the Cardinal Archbishop and Bishops of the Province of Westminster in Reply to the Letter Addressed to Them by the Anglican Archbishops of Canterbury and York" (1898). Many thanks to my friend Thilo Stopka in France for sending this rare document along, as well as to the anonymous individual(s) who carefully transcribed it. Gratias vobis ago.
Rev. T.A. Lacey's A Roman Diary (1896). This famous work has the Latin text of the three foregoing documents, in addition to much valuable commentary. (This is an external link to the Project Canterbury website.)
An excerpt from E. C. Messenger's The Reformation, the Mass, and the Priesthood (1937) on Roman Catholic response to Saepius Officio
In 1872, the Holy Office determined that the Methodist baptisms in Oceania could not, on the evidence, be faulted for lack of proper ministerial intention. This determination impacts the Anglican Orders controversy and remains significant to this day. Francis Clark, S.J., comments.
The statement of Cardinal Hume on the Ordination of Dr. Graham Leonard as a Roman Catholic Priest (1993)
An article by Fr John Hunwicke which treats of Old Catholic episcopal lines in Anglicanism, from a theological perspective. Originally published in The Messenger of the Catholic League in 1994.
"Can an Anglican 'Mass' be Valid?" Michael Davies reminds us that Rome had found the Edwardine Ordinal invalid -- not Cranmer's Communion Service.
