An outspoken critic of moves to ordain women to the priesthood within the Anglican Communion, Leonard left the Church of England and, by papal dispensation, received conditionally priestly ordination in the Roman Catholic Church in 1994.
An outspoken critic of moves to ordain women to the priesthood within the Anglican Communion, Leonard eventually left the Church of England to become a Roman Catholic. By papal dispensation he received conditionally ordination as a priest (but not as a bishop) in the Roman Catholic Church in 1994.