How s that for timing On the day that the Vatican begins talks with the ultra-traditionalist Society of St Pius X which split from Rome in 1988 a German court has fined one of the SSPX s bishops Richard Williamson for denying the Holocaust Bishop Williamson must pay 12 000 euros for asserting

As the dust settles -- or should that be as the debris clears -- on the Pope s momentous offer last week of a new home for Anglicans within the Catholic Church interpretations of his audacious move are beginning to shift I have a piece in the Guardian today arguing that the personal ordinariat

Martin E Marty one of the leading Protestant theologians here in this country and an estimable presence in the ecumenical world has a strongly worded commentary on the Vatican s gambit to attract more Anglicans into the Catholic Church Bypassing forty years of Anglican-Roman Catholic conversatio

Back in 1984 someone asked Barbara Bush what she thought of her husband rsquo s opponent Rep Geraldine Ferraro and she famously replied ldquo I can rsquo t say it but it rhymes with rich rdquo This anecdote came to me as I read Maureen Dowd rsquo s column in the New York Times yesterday in

That s David Gibson s contention in the Washington Post today nbsp Here s Gibson Thus far Benedict s papacy has been one of constant movement and change the sort of dynamic that liberal Catholics -- or Protestants -- are usually criticized for pursuing In Benedict s case this liberalism serv

Yesterday I was a guest on Tell Me More with Michel Martin discussing the Vatican s announcement of a forthcoming apostolic constitution aimed at disaffected Anglicans Here is the link and yes it s the right link In the first 30 seconds Michel tells what is coming later in the program a di