Day: October 30, 2009

The door swings both ways

The Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton of Maryland sees the Vatican plan to welcome disaffected Anglicans as part of a larger arc of progress and describes how he strives to work with his Roman Catholic counterparts with collegiality and respect because the door swings both ways.

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Not ready for prime time?

The publication of an Apostolic Constitution outlining a process for welcoming Anglicans into the Roman Catholic Church is delayed because of controversy within the Vatican over the specifics, in particular over priestly celibacy.

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Halloween and the masks of marriage

The bride in a black cocktail dress with a black veil, carrying a flower bouquet adorned with miniature skulls. The groom in dark slacks, a pirate shirt and a top hat. Theme music from The Addams Family and The Munsters. Guests in costume. That’s what Lisa Panensky and Jim Nieves had in mind when they booked their Halloween 2009 wedding at Westchester County’s Old Dutch Church.

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Remorseless reason

A survey of his extant works illustrates two features typical of Wyclif’s writings. First, the analytic rigor with which Wyclif approaches any problem, whether it be the nature of a mental act, a universal, a sacrament, the church, or scripture, is relentless. To readers unaccustomed to fourteenth-century philosophy, including many of the nineteenth-century editors of Wyclif’s Latin works, this seems to be academic nitpicking.

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