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Ordination Is an Historic First SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR ONLY NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SEE PAGE 9 FOR DETAILS No 5289 Paisley Diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes Page Bishop Tartaglia and Bishop Emeritus Mone lead local Catholics 6 No 5425 www.sconews.co.uk Friday July 22 2011 | 90p Ordination is an historic first DEPORTATION FEARS I Scottish Episcopal minister becomes Catholic priest under Anglican ordinariate By Liz Leydon IN AN historic first for Scotland, an Episcopal minister has been ordained to the Catholic priest- hood under the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham at a Mass in Greenock. Bishop Philip Tartaglia of Paisley, the bishop-delegate in Scotland for the ordinariate, presided at Sunday’s PARKHEAD PARISH ordination of Fr Len Black, former minister of St Michael of All Angels campaigns against Episcopal Church in Inverness. imminent deportation “I am delighted to be ordaining Rev of parishioner, an Len Black to the priesthood,” Bishop Tartaglia said before telling asylum seeker originally Scotland’s newest priest: “While you from Nigeria are being ordained under the ordinari- ate your priesthood is for the whole of Page 3 the Catholic Church… and we cele- brate that with you.” The ordinariate—an initiative of SEAL OF CONFESSION Pope Benedict XVI—was set up in January by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith for groups of ANGER AT IRISH Anglican faithful and their clergy who bid to pass legislation, wish to enter into full Communion with the Catholic Church. following the Cloyne Ordination Report, to break the Fr Black’s ordination took place at St seal of Confession Mary’s Church in Greenock. He was presented for ordination by Ordinary Page 8 Mgr Keith Newton, the former Anglican bishop who converted to Catholicism and now leads the ordi- NEWS INTERNATIONAL nariate, in the presence of Bishop Tartaglia and Bishop Peter Moran of Aberdeen, the diocese in which Fr Black lives. Bishop Moran ordained Fr Black as a Catholic deacon on June 23 at Pluscarden Abbey prior to him entering the priesthood. Fr Black’s wife Ruth was also pres- ent for the Sacrament on Sunday along with Mgr Denis Carlin, St Mary’s parish priest and director of Liturgical music for Paisley Diocese, and many priests from Paisley and beyond. Ordinariate In his homily at the ordination Bishop one small Inverness-based group with- Married priests Bishop Philip Tartaglia lays hands on Tartaglia explained the significance of in the Scottish Episcopal Church. At Sunday’s Mass, before the tradi- Deacon Len Black during the Ordination CONCERN GROWS the occasion, and of the ordinariate “Although the group in Scotland is tional homily for the ordination rite, Rite on Sunday at St Mary’s in Greenock itself, which extends to Scotland. very small, when taken along with con- the Paisley bishop took the opportuni- PIC: MARK CAMPBELL over Rupert Murdoch’s “In my personal opinion, the ordi- siderably more groups and clergy in ty to further explain the ordinariate to Papal knighthood, nariate has all the hallmarks of a Pope England and Wales and with ordinariate the congregation and the ‘novelty’ did not allow the ‘converse’ arrange- Papal visit donations in Benedict initiative: generous, cre- arrangements coming into place soon in that has arisen from Fr Black’s ordina- ment. By way of example, Bishop ative, imaginative and, above all, the US and possibly in Australia later, tion. Bishop Tartaglia said that the Tartaglia said, in good humour, that St light of media scandal deeply Catholic,” Bishop Tartaglia this begins to look like a new and ordinariate was ‘extending the exist- Mary’s parish priest ‘Mgr Carlin will said. visionary way of re-creating Christian ing precedent’ in Scotland of welcom- not anytime soon be running off to the Page 7 He added that the Holy Father had unity after years of ecumenical stale- ing suitable candidates from the ordinariate to get married.’ taken the lead in building bridges with mate, and it is marked by the striking Anglican clergy, married or single, to Traditional Anglicans ‘making us all originality, simplicity, and generosity of the Catholic priesthood. Fr Black run to catch up.’ a Pope Benedict XVI initiative,” the Unlike unmarried men entering the As an Episcopal minister, Fr Black Prior to Fr Black’s ordination Bishop bishop added. priesthood, however, Bishop Tartaglia was the regional dean of Forward in Tartaglia sent an ad clerum message to Since January the ordinariate has wel- said Fr Black would not ‘be expected Faith, the leading group of traditional- all Paisley priests providing an inform- comed more than 50 members of the to accept the vow of celibacy.’ ist Anglicans. ative guide to the ordinariate and the Anglican clergy, and more than 900 lay However, the bishop reassured way in which it extends at present to the Anglicans, in to the Catholic Church. parishioners that the Catholic Church I Continued on page 2 SCO, 19 Waterloo Street, Glasgow G2 6BT I tel 0141 221 4956 I fax 0141 221 4546 e-mail [email protected] 2 PICTURE NEWS SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday July 22 2011 Newest Scottish priest grateful for ‘gift of ordination’ I Continued from page 1 celebrations, recalling the sense of brotherhood he himself had “The gift of ordination is a great experienced through the kiss of privilege and honour and for me peace at his own ordination to it is also the culmination of a the Catholic priesthood earlier in long journey into full commun- the year. ion with the Catholic Church “The priests in the ordinariate made possible by the generosity want to work hand in hand with of Pope Benedict,” he said. the clergy in the dioceses where When the first plans for the they live,” Mgr Newton went on ordinariate were announced in to say. March 2010, then Canon Black Bishop Tartaglia echoed Mgr told the SCO he ‘warmly wel- Newton’s thanks, further extend- comed’ Pope Benedict’s efforts ing it to the two seminarians who ‘to respond to groups of attended the ordination. He said Anglicans, including members he looked forward to ordaining a of Forward in Faith, seeking to priest for Paisley Diocese in the be received into full communion future. with the Catholic Church while Fr Black then gave his first preserving elements of the dis- blessing as a Catholic priest tinctive Anglican spiritual and before the congregation joined liturgical patrimony.’ him for a reception in the parish hall. Vote of thanks At the end of the Mass of I [email protected] Ordination, Mgr Keith Newton offered a vote of thanks to all (Main) Fr Len Black with (back centre, left to right) Bishop Moran, those who had taken part in the Bishop Tartaglia, Mgr Carlin and celebration, and he also thanked Mgr Keith Newton. 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