I have my copy of "The Messenger", but no review quite yet...

...instead I have decided to go a little further back and unearth a forgotten classic from my library which has taken a new significance in these auspicious days. I refer, of course, to Henry Reynaud Turner Brandreth's seminal "The Oecumenical Ideals of the Oxford Movement." I review it in a little more depth on my book collecting site here: http://www.squidoo.com/catholic_and_anglo-catholic_books. One thing it leaves no doubt of is that the impulse to Catholic unity has been a mainspring of Anglo-Catholicism since its early days and one of its authentic goals. I count myself very fortunate that I am present to witness, through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, that impulse to unity begin to come to fruition.