POPE RECEIVES MONSIGNOR NEWTON IN AUDIENCE

(April 02, 2011) Benedict XVI received in audience Friday Monsignor Keith Newton, the first ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, UK. Monsignor Newton, 58, is one of three former Anglican bishops who were ordained Catholic priests Jan. 15 at the Westminster Cathedral in London. The other two were Father Andrew Burnham and Father John Broadhurst.   He was then named the ordinary for the new ordinariate for former Anglicans coming into the Catholic Church under the plan proposed by the Pope in "Anglicanorum Coetibus."
The monsignor was accompanied by Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Auxiliary Bishop Alan Stephen Hopes, a former Anglican priest who became Catholic 17 years ago, and who has been charged with setting up the ordinariate.   The Holy See confirmed the meeting, but has not reported any details of the conversation.