Pope Benedict’s visit to Great Britain continues apace. Yesterday the Pope was in England, where he visited a number of sites, most notably for Anglicans, Westminster Abbey and Lambeth Palace. Both are the first time in history a Pope has entered those buildings.
Updated with the official reaction of St. George’s CANA added below. ____ A charismatic founder of the Anglican Communion Institute and current priest in good
Bishops blog on their fall meeting in Phoenix AZ.
While the plots seem ludicrous, characters are frequently put into situations that raise basic questions: Do I choose my true love or my career? Is it right to pursue a relationship with someone my family doesn’t approve of? Are there times when it is right to be dishonest? Is good behavior always rewarded with happiness? Can evil people truly be redeemed?
Which is more important? Entering heaven or entering the Roman Catholic Church? Reports are that when John Henry Newman is beatified, the date of his feast in their calendar will be the date of his conversion to Roman Catholicism, not the day of his death.
A Baptist congregation in Texas has separated itself from their state’s conference because the local church welcomes gay and lesbians contrary to the policy of their denomination.
After suggesting that coming to a secular Britain is like landing in a “third world” country, Cardinal Walter Kasper has withdrawn from the Pope’s visit to the UK, citing a “sudden illness.”
The Episcopal Church Department of Public Affairs has issued the first of its Daily Accounts of the meeting of the House of Bishops September 16
A majority of Americans surveyed for the just released book, Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans’ Definitions of Family, consider same-sex couples with children to
Pope: “As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and thus to a “reductive vision of the person and his destiny”.