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To: mike182d

P.S. Here is the church website:

http://www.stmarythevirgin.org/

Go to "About St. Marys" on the left, then click on "Bishop Delaney's decree establishing the parish." You will see the following near the end of the letter:

“It is my intention that the Reverend Allen Hawkins, upon his ordination to the sacred priesthood, will be appointed the first pastor of the new parish.”

Fr. Hawkins and the whole parish converted to the Roman Catholic Church, then he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest not too long afterwards (I think about three months later).


15 posted on 10/14/2005 10:13:05 AM PDT by nanetteclaret (Our Lady's Hat Society)
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To: nanetteclaret
Ah, right on the website is your answer:

A parish of the Pastoral Provision of Pope John Paul II for the Anglican Usage of the Roman Rite

The Church is not a "Latin Rite" Church. It is part of the Church of Rome, but provisionally under rules provided for "Anglican Usage."
19 posted on 10/14/2005 11:10:28 AM PDT by mike182d ("Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?")
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