This is from the Catholic Herald, and it's posted here because so many of us know and admire John Hunwicke. We do not know the reason for this deferral, and this is not the place to speculate about it, nor is it a place to post angry or insulting comments. Any such posts will be deleted.
Please keep all this in your prayers. It's a mystery to us because we don't know the details (nor should we), but God knows exactly what He's doing, and if you'll excuse the only bit of speculation allowed… I think Mr. Hunwicke will be Fr. Hunwicke once again.
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Leading ex-Anglo-Catholic shuts down blog
A prominent ex-Anglo-Catholic has shut down his blog in wake of news that his ordination as a priest in Britain’s ordinariate has been “deferred”.
John Hunwicke, former Anglican priest at St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and former Senior Research Fellow at Pusey House, said there had been a “misunderstanding” about the content of his blog.
He added: “I shall promptly delete any comments on it (or emails sent to me) which are in any way whatsoever critical of the Catholic Church, or any of its officers, or of the ordinariate.”
His blog “Fr Hunwicke’s Liturgical Notes” was read by many in the blogosphere and has received extensive support and prayers.
A distinguished intellectual, Fr Hunwicke opened his last blog post with the words: “I had better share with my friends the distressing news that my ordination within the Catholic Church has been ‘deferred’.
“Despite everything, I remain convinced that the ordinariate is the only means of achieving the great vision of the Catholic Revival.”
Blogger Fr Ray Blake and Fr Ivan Aquilina, ordained as a priest in the ordinariate on Saturday, said they were dismayed at the news.
Fr Ray Blake said: “I, too, am distressed to read this. I have never understood anything you have written to be unkind or ever contrary to the Faith … Your blog has been very important to me in my own spiritual and theological growth.”
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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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