Look at them! Can't you tell they're wicked? These are what The Times has labelled the 'rebel nuns on the run'. Hyped up much? I just think they're a collection of rather amiable looking women glad to be one step further on their journey.
Armed only with their 'sense of adventure and vitality', these nuns have given up their convent worth 'millions of pounds' in return for fincial uncertainty. Perhaps these are less rebels, but a collection of travellers with a clear route with one or two detours and the car stereos pumping out anglican chant choones. They're currently staying with the sisters on Ryde who have their own reputation for chant while they search for a new home. That they only need six weeks with them to learn their "new tradition" is probably a sign of just how far from mainstream Anglicanism and just how close to Roman Catholicism they'd been previously.
I'm lucky enough to be friends with some more mainstream anglican clergy and they tend to see the ordinariate as a good thing for the Church of England, a means of dumping the fringes that are getting in the way of the path their denomination is going. Part of me quite likes Fr Z's idea of 'Romanorum Coetibus', a document he would have the Anglican bishops publish as a means of having catholics who took the 1970s to heart and never let them go retain their polyester patrimony to match their polyester theology within a denomination which might better suit them.
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