The news from Rome about the establishment of special ordinariates for disaffected Anglicans should not be seen as a re-lighting of the fires at Tyburn Indeed Archbishop Nichols of Westminster and Archbishop Rowan of Canterbury held a joint press conference to put the announcement in the context o

Talks with between the Vatican and the formerly breakaway Society of St Pius X are about to begin in late October nbsp As our former associate and longtime and beloved editor John W Donohue used to say Stay tuned nbsp Here s the story from Zenit VATICAN CITY SEPT 15 2009 Zenit or

Approaching John Paul II's Theology of the Body

Roland Joffe director of The Mission a movie about the Jesuit reductions that I hope that you ve seen is doing a new movie on St Josemaria Escriva founder of Opus Dei nbsp Laurie Goodstein has the story in today s New York Times nbsp The project was initiated by a member of Opus Dei is p

Frederico Lombardi S J the Vatican spokesperson has called the nbsp planned nbsp upcoming priestly ordinations of members of the schismatic Society of St Pius X illegitimate nbsp The order founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefevre pictured here nbsp in the wake of his rejection with many of

Remember The Mission that great 1986 film about eighteenth-century Jesuits in the Paraguayan jungle starring Robert de Niro and Jeremy Irons Its British director Roland Joffe is making a new Catholic drama - about the early life of Opus Dei and its founder St Josemar iacute a Escriv aacute de

Rowan Williams on the faith of Dostoevsky

Rowan Williams considers Dostoevsky's Christianity

It was an apology of sorts -- but not of the sort to make amends The Holocaust-denying schismatic British bishop whose rehabilitation by the Vatican sparked an international row apologised last night for remarks in which he denied the scale of the Nazis genocidal campaign against the Jews The a

Adolfo Nicolas the superior general of the Society of Jesus recently visited the Jesuits California Province on the occasion of its 100th anniversary nbsp He spoke to a wide variety of groups--9 days 11 cities and 30 different sites--and had an extensive press conference for representative