When King Henry VIII broke with Rome and became the head of the Church of England in 1534, he ruptured centuries worth of religious tradition and practice developed between the English and the Latin ...

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop-designate David Waller as the next ordinary -- and the first bishop -- of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, a kind of diocese for Catholics of the ...

Bishop Steven J. Lopes of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, delivers the homily during a March 26, 2026, chrism Mass ...

Bishop David Waller delivers his first homily as bishop of the London-based Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, in Westminster Cathedral, London, at his June 22, 2024, episcopal ordination ...

When Pope Leo XIII made Newman a cardinal in 1879, Newman chose the motto, 'Heart speaks to heart,' because he realized we are saved through the Lord speaking from his heart to ours. The oratory in ...

The first bishop of a special diocese in Great Britain created for Catholics of the Anglican tradition has welcomed the pope's show of support and predicted the fledgling Ordinariate of Our Lady of ...

Catholics in the United Kingdom that are part of the personal ordinariate, a kind of diocese originally set up to receive groups of Anglican Christians into full communion with the Catholic Church, ...