Sunday s referendum in Switzerland in which more than 57 of voters and 22 out of 26 cantons voted in favour of a ban on further construction of minarets has been strongly criticized by the president of the Vatican s Council for Migrants Msgr Antonio Maria Vegli ograve said the popular support

Paragraph 1 15 of the devastating Murphy Commission s report into the cover-up of clerical sex abuse of minors by bishops says it all The Dublin Archdiocese s pre-occupations in dealing with cases of child sexual abuse at least until the mid 1990s were the maintenance of secrecy the avoidance of

Apart from his fondness for haikus and his giggle-inducing name it s hard to think of anything interesting to say about Herman Van Rompuy the first president of the European Council In fact the whole point of the Belgian s election was the avoidance of color and interest they were looking for

Archbishop of Canterbury and Pope in talks to heal rift is the tenor of most news reports on their 20-minute meeting today A nbsp Vatican communiqu eacute described the encounter as cordial when isn t it they discussed the challenges facing all Christian communities at the beginning of t

Here s a flow-chart for Church of England priests considering whether to accept the Pope s offer of a post-Anglican sanctuary within the Catholic Church courtesy of the Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley cyber-coenobites apparently -- h t Andrew Brown at the Guardian

Two interviews nbsp -- Cardinal Walter Kasper head of Rome s Christian unity council in Osservatore Romano and Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster in The Tablet -- have coincided with a speech yesterday - text here -- by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams at the Gregorian Univer

What will come of the Vatican's invitation to Anglicans?

As a fan of the writer Karen Armstrong -- a former nun who has become one of the leading authorities on religion and its deformation in the modern world -- I was intrigued to learn of an initiative she has just launched no less than a global charter calling for the restoration of the principle of c

There was a risk that the publication of Anglicanorum coetibus Groups of Anglicans allowing for the corporate integration of Rome-leaning Anglicans would chill some of the warm reactions which its announcement three weeks ago generated The damp had already set in with the CDF s clarification