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Pope Benedict XVI and his Anglican counterpart, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, had "cordial discussions" Saturday, the Vatican said amid tensions between the two churches. The strictly private meeting came just two weeks after the Vatican made it easier for disgruntled Anglicans to convert to Catholicism, a move that caught Williams off-guard, saying he had been informed of it "at a very late stage." The two leaders "focused on recent events affecting relations between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion," the Vatican said in a statement, adding that they vowed to "continue and to consolidate the ecumenical relationship." "Attention turned to the challenges ... Read Full Story

Pope Benedict XVI and his Anglican counterpart, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, had "cordial discussions" on Saturday, the Vatican said amid tensions between the two churches. The strictly private meeting came just two weeks after the Vatican made it easier for disgruntled Anglicans to convert to Catholicism, a move that caught Williams off-guard, saying he had been informed of it "at a very late stage." The two leaders "focused on recent events affecting relations between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion," the Vatican said in a statement, adding that they vowed to "continue and to consolidate the ecumenical relationship." "Attention turned to the ... Read Full Story

Pope Benedict is due to meet the Anglican leader Archbishop Rowan Williams for talks in the Vatican on Saturday. It's the first meeting between the two religious leaders since the Vatican set up a formal structure to make it easier for disenchanted Anglicans to convert to Catholicism.  The Vatican said its move, announced last month,  came in response to many requests over the years from Anglicans disillusioned with the progressive turn of the Anglican Communion, especially on issues like female priesthood and gay bishops. However, many Anglicans see the move as an attempt by the Catholic church  to poach believersand take advantage of the ... Read Full Story

The Roman Catholic Church has expressed concerns over the growing popularity of the Twilight movies - Vatican officials have called the vampire franchise a "moral vacuum with a deviant message." " />" class="middle" /> Read more! Read Full Story

Church of England leader Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, said the "glass is half-full" in relations with the Catholic Church despite strains over a Vatican overture to disaffected Anglicans. Speaking ahead of a meeting Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI, who last month approved a new structure for allowing groups of Anglicans into the Catholic fold, Williams said the two churches had "unfinished business" to resolve, but that "the ecumenical glass is genuinely half-full." "The strong convergence... about what the Church of God really is, is very striking," he said in a lecture at Rome's Gregorian University, questioning "whether this unfinished business is as fundamentally ... Read Full Story