More on Bishop Robert's reception

I know some folks are no longer calling him Bishop Robert Mercer now that he has been received into the Catholic Church and is a simple Catholic layman.  But sorry, to just call him Robert seems disrespectful to me.  So just as former presidents and ambassadors are still referred to by their titles, he is still Bishop Robert to me.

Here are some more pictures (and more if you follow the link) from Fr. Edwin Barnes' blog:



The reception of Bishop Robert Mercer CR has already been covered in the Anglo-Catholic blog. But since I was there, and have a couple of pictures so far unpublished, it may be worth saying a little more about the event.



Bishop Mercer has been a leading figure among "continuing" Anglicans, and was for some years Metropolitan of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada. His reception into the Catholic Church represents the first Bishop from the TAC grouping (the Traditional Anglican Church) to join an Ordinariate. Now we look forward to his ordination as a Priest - and perhaps too to the Episcopate, as the only celibate former Anglican bishop within the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. That is only speculation on my part. He may be considered over the hill, being past the supposed retirement age for Catholic clergy.