These are the Complementary Norms which accompany the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith today In a press release the CDF says the Norms will guide the implementation of this provision CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE F

Rome has just released the full text of the Apostolic Constitution providing for Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church -- analysed in my America article Bridge over the River Tiber Here is the full text Comments to follow Apostolic Constituti

Last weekend I took part in a debate at the wonderful Battle of Ideas Festival in London a weekend of intellectual jousting where the hot-button issues of the day are gnawed over by panels of divergent experts and sharp-shooting audiences I ve been on panels in previous years on immigration and re

Archbishop John Favalora of Miami has prohibited priests of the Legionaries of Christ from exercising any ministry in his nbsp archdiocese effective immediately The October 29 letter addressed to all priests of the archdiocese is here The spokesman for the Legionaries who are under investigatio

Celebrating All Saints Day today Pope Benedict XVI noted that it was the tenth anniversary of a historic agreement between Lutherans and Catholics which he hoped will help bring forward the path towards the full visible unity of all the disciples of Christ Oddly the Times headlines this Pop

The former Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O Connor was the Catholic chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue commission ARCIC for 16 years His speech last night at a Benedictine monastery Worth Abbey -- ARCIC dead in the water or money in the bank -- had been planned

Two interesting clarifications on the ordinariates proposal from a functionary in the CDF In a ZENIT interview Msgr William Stetson an Opus Dei canonist who has the snappy title of secretary to the Ecclesiastical Delegate of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for the Pastoral Provisio

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

Early news coverage suggests that the strategy of the bishops of Westminster and Canterbury of downplaying the ecumenical damage threatened by this morning s announcement by Rome -- see earlier posts here and here nbsp -- has met with limited success nbsp The Times notes how Cardinal Levada pref