A community portal about The Roman Catholic Church with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope...
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A community portal about The Roman Catholic Church with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins and sees itself as the same Church founded by Jesus of Nazareth and maintained through Apostolic Succession from the Twelve Apostles.
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... Read Full Story
The Archbishop of Canterbury sought Thursday to downplay the implications of the Vatican's unprecedented invitation for Anglicans to join the Catholic Church as he arrived in Rome for his first talks with the pope on the new policy. Archbishop Rowan Williams' three-day visit, which began Thursday with a lecture and ends Saturday with a papal audience, was scheduled before the Vatican announced it was making it easier for traditional Anglicans upset over the ordination of women and gay... Read Full Story
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Dublin obsessively covered up widespread sexual abuse of children by priests until the mid-1990s in a misuse of the Church's central role in Irish society, an official report said on Thursday. The government-commissioned inquiry into abuse in the Irish capital from 1975 to 2004, which came six months after a similarly damning report about Church-run industrial and reform schools, also accused state officials of abetting the cover-up. The... Read Full Story
A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker's support for abortion rights. The bishop's attempt to publicly shame Kennedy comes just a few months after the death of his father, Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. Tobin told The Associated Press in an interview Sunday that he's praying for the younger... Read Full Story
ROME (Reuters) - Roman Catholics should look beyond the divisive issue of ordaining women to see how much they share with the world's Anglicans and work toward greater Christian unity, the head of the Anglican Communion said on Thursday. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, whose own church is split over female priests and bishops, said the Vatican's ban on ordaining women was not as solidly grounded theologically as the core Christian doctrines the two denominations agree on. His speech... Read Full Story
The Roman Catholic Church is joining Cuba's booming blogosphere with a new Web site launched Monday that aims to provide a virtual forum for the island's faithful. "Believing in Cuba" is a meeting place for "those who live, dream, work and hope in Cuba and the Cuban community overseas," according to an announcement on the Cuban Catholic Bishops Conference Web site. Despite having the lowest online penetration in the Americas, Cuba has seen a flourishing generation of dissident bloggers using... 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... Read Full Story
Church of England leader Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, said Thursday 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... Read Full Story
The Vatican eased the way Monday for Anglicans unhappy with the Church of England's ordination of female and homosexual clergy to convert to Catholicism. The Roman Catholic Church unveiled a new juridical framework for the conversions in response to "repeated and insistent" petitions from Anglicans to join the Church, the Vatican said in a statement. The move could attract thousands of Anglicans from around the world, including the United States, Australia and Africa. Announcing the planned... Read Full Story
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said Monday its plan to allow married Anglican priests to convert to Catholicism does not signal any change to its age-old rule of celibacy for the overwhelming majority of Catholic priests. The Vatican stressed its position in a preface to Pope Benedict's Apostolic Constitution "Anglicanorum Coetibus" (Groups of Anglicans) regulating the admission of Anglican converts to Catholicism, including married priests and bishops. "The possibility envisioned by... Read Full Story
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