Been reading...

...a booklet giving the text of a lecture by Rt Rev Graham Leonard, former Anglican Bishop of London, telling of his spiritual journey.  He served for 45 years  - with great distinction, although he does not mention that - as an Anglican,  and following the events of 1992 and the C of E Synod's vote to create women priests, he was received into full communion with the Catholic Church and was ordained. His account is touching and interesting in lots of ways...but it's huge relevance for today lies in the fact that the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham was forged out of the discussions that he and others held back in the early 1990s with Cardinal Basil Hume and others.  The Cardinal had asked them what elements of their  Anglican heritage they could bring.. this was also discussed with .Cardinal Ratzinger in Rome... and the result, some two decades later, was Anglicanorum Coetibus.   And now we have the Ordinariate...