Catholic Church creates ordinariates and ordains former Anglican priests

15 articles · Updated · Catholic Answers · May 1

The move followed Benedict XVI’s Anglicanorum Coetibus and led many ex-Anglican clergy entering the ordinariates to receive absolute, not conditional, Catholic ordination.
The report says Rome still presumes Anglican orders invalid under Leo XIII’s 1896 Apostolicae Curae, despite later ecumenical debate, revised Anglican rites and some bishops receiving lines recognised by Rome.
It argues women’s ordination in Anglicanism further widened the divide, while the ordinariates gave converts sacramental certainty and a practical route into full communion with the Catholic Church.

If the Catholic Church now embraces Anglican heritage in its Ordinariates, why must it still nullify their priests?

Do traditional Anglicans, using Catholic logic to split their own church, prove the Pope's 1896 ruling was correct?

With a female Archbishop leading Anglicans, is the 130-year-old dispute over male priests now simply irrelevant?