In All Things

Gene Robinson the openly gay American Bishop of New Hampshire whose consecration in 2003 sparked the current Anglican crisis was forced to halt his sermon at a London church today after a lone heckler nbsp with a motorcycle helmet nbsp disrupted the service nbsp When Robinson mentioned the ldq

Sacrilege is a potent word nbsp The Catholic Encyclopedia defines it as a nbsp violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object nbsp Now P Z Myers an associate professor at the University of Minnesota in Morris has decided that nbsp Catholic reverence for the Eucharist is a throwback to

I helped organise a rally around Parliament today which was a terrific reminder of what the Anglican faith is capable of when it is not mired in internal ecclesiological arguments A service at Westminster Abbey for Zimbabwe led by the Uganda-born Archbishop of York John Sentamu was followed by

The Rev Jesse Jackson apologized for ldquo crude remarks rdquo that he made about Sen Barack Obama on a television show when he thought his microphone was off Jackson rsquo s remarks were certainly crude He said he wanted to cut off part of Obama rsquo s anatomy But there seemed to me to be

Here s the link to the new website for Catholics for Obama nbsp We believe they write that Senator Obama s vision of seeking common ground and working towards the common good offers a unique opportunity to build a more just and humane society consistent with Catholic values The usual Re

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