Cardinal Dinardo's Important Remarks on Anglicans Crossing the Tiber

I think Cardinal Dinardo is one of the most significant and important appointments Pope Benedict has made in the United States Church. On the whole I think it is more important than the appointment of the new man in charge in New York.

The importance of the appointment and what is at stake will only be trumped by who Pope Benedict decides to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Cardinal Dinardo I am convinced will quickly become the public face of U.S Catholicism and in his influence in the United States and in the Vatican will largely grow.

Therefore this visit to a Anglican Use Parish in Texas is very significant. A very well done article here as Cardianl Dinardo talks issues and sort of hints perhaps of how he would like to see this done. See Catholic Cardinal positive about the future of Anglican Ordinariates

Two thing I want to highlight here
Cardinal DiNardo feels that it would be very prudent if once the Ordinariate gets up and running that the transferring Ordinariate priests continue to receive some monetary assistance from their local Latin Rite dioceses for on-going financial support at least in the terms of health insurance and retirement benefits until the Ordinariate can afford to foot the entire cost of a married priest and his family needs. He explained that in the beginning the Ordinariate will be small with few self-sustaining parishes and would therefore be financially strapped while the Ordinariate will have to immediately be able to support its own Ordinary and his immediate chancellery structure.

Exactly!!! In other Latin Rite Catholic s we need to get the checkbook out!!!

Second

Cardinal DiNardo also sees the Anglican Use parish as an effective Catholic evangelization tool to not only reach out to the spiritual marooned Episcopalians in this country and Anglicans abroad to bring them into the fullness of faith in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church through the See of Peter and to also bring those disenfranchised Catholics who have left the Church and discovered Her again through the beauty and majesty of the Anglican Use liturgy.

Again right on. I am not alone in thinking this will have more of a impact in some areas than even Pope Benedict's move to give the faithful more opportunity to worship at the "Latin Mass".