Scotland and the Ordinariate

Last Wednesday, Fr. Len Black - formerly a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church and Regional Dean of Forward in Faith - was ordained a Catholic priest by Bishop Philip Tartaglia of Paisley.  Bishop Tartaglia's words on the Ordinariate's contribution to the ecumenism are worth noting:

Although the group in Scotland is very small, when taken along with considerably more groups and clergy in England and Wales and with ordinariate arrangements coming into place soon in the US and possibly in Australia later, this begins to look like a new and visionary way of re-creating Christian unity after years of ecumenical stalemate, and it is marked by the striking originality, simplicity, and generosity of a Pope Benedict XVI initiative.

Members of the Ordinariate in Scotland were previously received into the Catholic Church during the Easter Vigil.