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The FSSP is juridically a different kind of organization (technically a “clerical society of apostolic life of pontifical right”). They wouldn’t ordinarily be headed by a bishop. The closest analogue to the ordinariate are the “personal prelatures” like Opus Dei, which are headed by bishops.

Actually, I think the Anglican Ordinariate is much different than even Opus Dei.

I think you or I would be eligible to join Opus Dei tomorrow, if we wished to. Not so with the Ordinariate, which appears to be quite exclusive:

Those who were baptized Catholic but have not received Confirmation and First Communion are now allowed to join the ordinariates. Previously, baptized Catholics were not eligible to join the groups unless they had family who were ex-Anglicans.

This "particular", and obviously exclusive, church disturbs me. What happened to the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church? For instance:

With their own bishop, said Msgr. Entwistle [the ordinary of the U.K. ordinariate], "we have become a particular Church. This is a statement of confidence from the Holy Father."

As far Dinardo's Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, I'll never darken it's doorways with my shadow until it is reconsecrated as a Catholic church.

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