This article will appear in the next print issue of the Register: VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has paved the way for groups of disaffected Anglicans to come into communion with Rome. In a historic ...
Father Matthew Topham, priest-in-charge of St Mary’s, East Hendred in Oxfordshire, is acutely conscious of the weight of Reformation history that comes with his role.
The Rev. Jeffrey Steenson's colleagues joke that during the past several years, he's gone from a church heretic to a hierarch. Even though he has been a Catholic priest for only about three years, ...
London, January 14 (ENInews)--Three former Anglican bishops are to be ordained as Roman Catholic priests on Saturday, 15 January at Westminster Cathedral – the first bishops to join Rome under a new ...
Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, head of the Anglican Communion, arrives with Cardinal Walter Kasper for a vespers service at the Caravita oratory in Rome in this Nov. 20, 2009, CNS file photo ...
WASHINGTON — Pope Benedict XVI established a new nationwide U.S. ordinariate Jan. 1 for U.S. Anglicans (Episcopalians) who wish to become Catholic. He named Fr. Jeffrey N. Steenson, a Catholic ...
The first wave of reactions to the announcement by the Vatican on Tuesday of a new arrangement for receiving into the Roman Catholic Church groups of Anglican clergy and laity who would retain ...
A group of 11 Anglican nuns who were received into the communion of the Catholic Church Jan. 1 were lauded for their response to "the Holy Father's summons to unity" at their Mass of reception. "You ...
The Vatican’s recent provision for Anglicans who want to become Catholic, immigration issues and Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Veritatis Splendor were the topics at a joint Anglican-Catholic ...
The Anglican Catholic Church on Wednesday said it has removed a Grand Rapids priest for making a "pro-Nazi salute" during an event in Washington, D.C. The church said it revoked Calvin Robinson's ...