I think it was the American writer and humorist Mark Twain who said, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." The same could be said concerning what's being reported about the Canadian Ordinariate. This story appeared, stating that "Rome has placed the matter of Ordinariates and dialogue concerning same 'on hold' until further notice." That is untrue. No Anglican Catholic bishop has said that. No one representing the Holy See has done such a thing.
What is true is that there are some unanswered questions about the implementation of Anglicanorum coetibus in Canada, and the bishops of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada (ACCC) have decided to make a pause in the process so that certain issues which are important to them can be discussed and settled. Archbishop Thomas Collins of Toronto, the CDF Delegate for the implementation of Anglicanorum coetibus in Canada, had appointed various mentor priests to visit the parishes. The ACCC bishops have asked that those visits be postponed temporarily.
There's still a desire among the ACCC folks to be part of the Canadian Ordinariate. If there are some things that need to be better understood by everyone concerned, there's no shame in taking a little time to do that.
Related posts:
My Story on Archbishop Collins and AnglicansOfficial Canadian Ordinariate Web PresencePreparing for the Canadian OrdinariateThe Updated David Virtue StorySan Antonio in the Snow March 24-26 near Toronto
Fr. Christopher G. Phillips is the pastor of Our Lady of the Atonement Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas, where he has served for the past twenty-seven years. He is the founding pastor of the first Anglican Use parish, erected in 1983 under the terms of the Pastoral Provision. Fr. Phillips was ordained as an Anglican for the Diocese of Bristol, England, in 1975. After serving as Curate for three years at St. Stephen Southmead, he returned to the United States and served in two Episcopal parishes in the Diocese of Rhode Island. In 1981 he left the Episcopal Church and moved with his family to Texas, where he was subsequently ordained as a Catholic priest in 1983. Fr. Phillips and his wife, JoAnn, have been married for forty years. They have five children, all grown and married, and two grandchildren. 
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