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English archdiocese announces apologetics initiative (Archdiocese of Southwark)
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (200+ words) " Continue to this story on Archdiocese of Southwark CWN Editor's Note: The Archdiocese of Southwark, England, announced yesterday that it is launching Ambassadors for Christ, an apologetics initiative for parishes and schools. "As someone who converted to Catholicism as a…...
Anglican prelate announces new breakaway sect (The Living Church)
1+ week, 21+ hour ago (95+ words) " Continue to this story on The Living Church CWN Editor's Note: An Anglican prelate has broken with one conservative splinter group in the US to form another. Bishop Jones says of his new group: The group has affiliated itself with…...
Hundreds of former Anglican clerics now Catholic priests | News Headlines
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (151+ words) Hundreds of Anglican clerics had become Catholic priests since 1992, when the Church of England accepted the ordination of women, the Daily Telegraph reports. In those 32 years, the Telegraph reports, roughly one-third of all men ordained to the Catholic priesthood had…...
Holy See reiterates position on gender | News Headlines
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (273+ words) The Holy See recently welcomed the outcome document of the 16th Ministerial Conference of the United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and, in doing so, stated: The Holy See reiterates its position regarding the term "gender." The Holy See underlines that…...
Cardinal Koch takes stock of Anglican-Catholic relations | News Headlines
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (220+ words) Cardinal Kurt Koch, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, took stock of Anglican-Catholic relations in a recent address in Belgium, at the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Malines Conversations. Expressing sorrow over divisions within the Anglican Communion,…...
Polarization threatens legitimacy of US institutions, Cardinal McElroy warns | News Headlines
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (239+ words) Preaching at the annual Red Mass for members of the legal profession on October 5, Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington DC, said that because of severe political divisions in the US today, "the legitimacy of our very institutional infrastructure is at…...
Woman chosen as Archbishop of Canterbury | News Headlines
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (212+ words) " Continue to this story on BBC CWN Editor's Note: Dame Sarah Mullally has been nominated by King Charles III to become Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the worldwide Anglican communion. The nominee'who will assume her post after her election…...
Anglican commission will announce nominee to be Archbishop of Canterbury on October 3 | News Headlines
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (178+ words) " Continue to this story on Church Times CWN Editor's Note: A commission charged with nominating a candidate to become the next Archbishop of Canterbury'the leader of the worldwide Anglican communion'will announce its selection on Friday, October 3. The Crown Nominations Commission…...
Quebec Catholic churches sold, put to new secular uses | News Headlines
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (219+ words) In Quebec, where the rate of Catholic Mass attendance was once among the highest in the world, a steep decline in Catholic activity has led to the sale of many old parish churches. An AP story sketches the different uses…...