Archbishop Hiltz, Bishop Leo Frade and Dr. Muriel Porter all respond to the Vatican’s announcement of a new apostolic constitution for disaffected Anglicans.
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed the Senate and heads to the White House where President Obama has promised to sign it into law.
It came as a surprise to discover that monks were no longer involved in the beer-making at Trappist brewer Westmalle during a visit to research for a feature of Trappist beers.
The Church of Sweden will begin marrying same-sex couples in churches on All Saints Day.
We here in Rome have received many questions about the Vatican announcement on October 20 about the setting up of “Personal Ordinariates” for former Anglicans wishing to enter into full communion now with the Roman Catholic Church. Here are some answers to those questions posed by many.
Rowan Williams has separated out ecclesiastical rights from human rights, and has become complicit in the actions of African prelates and civil authorities against gay people; he has turned Church life into a form of isolated ecclesiastical bureaucracy; he has made a joke of critical theology and Biblical study when it comes to Church authority, and now for all this overturning of Anglican sensibilities for the greater goal he has been humiliated by Rome.
A study of James is indeed a study of the growth of the early Christian church as seen from the perspective of Jewish Christianity. James was the historical link between “his brother” Jesus and the emerging Christian church.