One of the three ldquo flying bishops rdquo ndash given the task after the 1992 Church of England vote to ordain women of ministering to traditionalists who objected to the move ndash says he wants to cross the Tiber The Daily Telegraph reports that the Bishop of Ebbsfleet the Rt Rev Andre

Sally Quinn who now famously nbsp received Communion at nbsp Tim Russert s nbsp funeral Mass a few weeks ago in Washington D C and which we commented on here a post that prompted much animated discussion has responded to her supporters and her critics with a new post on the On Faith blo

Just in nbsp from NCR The archdiocese of St Louis authorized the video recording of a Catholic women rsquo s ordination ceremony that took place in a synagogue last November It then used the video along with photographs apparently taken from the video as evidence to punish a Catholic nun who a

nbsp In a culture that is dripping in irony it is rare that cynicism is an appropriate moral stance But the communiqu eacute on global climate change coming from the G-8 summit of industrialized powers requires precisely such cynicism nbsp The leaders of the industrialized powers declared t

Pope Benedict has nbsp appointed Luis Ladaria SJ as secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith replacing Archbishop Angelo Amato who becomes prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Saints Robert Mickens of the London Tablet reports nbsp nbsp The 64-year-old Spani

The Vatican rsquo s reaction to the Church of England rsquo s historic decision to press ahead with the consecration of women as bishops without compromise measures was pretty much as expected Such a decision signifies a breaking away from the apostolic tradition maintained by all of the churches