about -1 years ago - 1 comment
I have a document that probably sheds a considerable amount of light onto why the authorities of the Church are retaining celibacy as a rule and allowing generous dispensations from this discipline at the same time. I am sure most of our readers are aware that not all Catholics are orthodox or traditionally-minded. Many have More >
about 1 day ago - 60 comments
Zenit is carrying an interview with Fr. Laurent Touze, spiritual theology professor at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, who spoke at a two-day conference held last week entitled, “Priestly Celibacy: Theology and Life,” and sponsored by the Congregation for the Clergy as an event for the Year for Priests.
The interview is especially interesting More >
about 1 day ago - 1 comment
If God is for us, who can be against us?
I must do some writing for Catholic papers today on last night’s excellent Catholic Christian Outreach event where Cardinal Levada spoke, so I must be brief. I posted some pictures from yesterday over at my blog, which I have been neglecting of late. I also put More >
about 1 day ago - 8 comments
Most of the Anglican groups, in the Anglican Communion or the TAC, live in countries where their bishops have territorial dioceses. It would certainly be assumed that one or more Ordinariates would be established in those countries more or less corresponding with the formerly Anglican jurisdictions concerned.
There are some very small groups of Anglicans living More >
about 2 days ago - 1 comment
The Salt + Light blog has an unofficial transcription of the talk (“Five Hundred Years After St. John Fisher: Benedict’s Ecumenical Initiatives to Anglicans”) which Cardinal Levada delivered on Saturday evening at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Here are some excerpts. My emphases.
The recent Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, establishing—I don’t need to translate this, I suppose, it More >
about 2 days ago - No comments
The blog of Canada’s Salt + Light Catholic Media Foundation has the following excerpt from Cardinal Levada’s address, “Five Hundred Years After St. John Fisher: Benedict’s Ecumenical Initiatives to Anglicans”:
Visible union with the Catholic Church does not mean absorption into a monolith, with the absorbed body being lost to the greater whole, the way a More >
about 2 days ago - 4 comments
My colleague at the Ottawa Citizen, Jennifer Green, has a report in today’s paper on Cardinal William Levada’s talk in Kingston, Ontario Saturday night, March 6.
I will be writing a longer version for Catholic papers that I hope to file about midday today. Here’s an excerpt of Jenny’s piece, with my bolds. I think she More >
about 3 days ago - 8 comments
Here’s an excerpt and link:
ORLANDO, Fla. — The bishops of the Anglican Church in America have voted to accept Pope Benedict XVI’s invitation to bring their 3,000 members into the Catholic Church.
The unanimous vote of eight members of the House of Bishops, who met in Orlando, Fla., brings 120 parishes in four More >
about 4 days ago - 14 comments
As some of the older clergy in both Anglican and Catholic traditions are what I would call ‘1970’s dinosaurs’, still thinking about what needs to be discarded in order to be relevant to modern man, some of the younger folk are labouring to recover what the older men spent their careers on destroying. We have More >
about 5 days ago - 8 comments
The following piece appears on the web site of the London Oratory. The emphases are mine.
While the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus provides our separated communities with the means to achieve corporate reunion with the Universal Church, each individual Anglican — bishop, priest, deacon, religious, and layman — is also called to personal conversion. It is More >
