News (UK)

Written by: Alex Walker

Created: 11 September 2005

Joe Mulrooney and Alex Walker are to attend the European Meeting in Wiesbaden from Friday 16th to Monday 19th September.

Read more: European Congress Wiesbaden

Written by: Alex Walker

Created: 29 July 2005

So few men are becoming Roman Catholic priests that some parishes in the London area may have to close with others compelled to share priests, according to a church consultation document.

Read more: Challenges of heeding call of God

Written by: Alex Walker

Created: 14 July 2005

A Catholic bishop said Anglican clerics opposed to the ordination of women bishops should not be received into the Catholic Church for "negative reasons." Bishop Declan Lang of Clifton, one of England's leading Catholic ecumenists, spoke amid rising speculation that the vote taken by the Church of England July 11 to remove legal obstacles to the episcopal ordination of women would lead to mass defections of traditionalist clergy. Bishop Lang, co-chairman of the English Anglican-Roman Catholic Committee, a group that meets twice a year to promote ecumenical projects and the joint study of theology, said mechanisms existed within the English Catholic Church to receive married Anglican ministers and even to ordain them as Catholic priests. "When there was the ordination of women in the first place there were some Anglicans who applied to be received into the Catholic Church, and the same provision is there at the moment," he told Catholic News Service July 12. "But there is an understanding that you don't come into the Catholic Church for a negative reason."

Written by: Alex Walker

Created: 07 July 2005

Our thoughts and prayers are with those who lost their lives today in the hideous and callous London bombings. We pray for all those affected by this crime. May God, forgive those who carried out this atrocity.