Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Hilarion. Anglo-Catholic Personal Prelature Vatican Yesterday in a Vatican press conference, Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of …More
Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Hilarion.
Anglo-Catholic Personal Prelature
Vatican
Yesterday in a Vatican press conference, Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, announced that an Apostolic Constitution has been prepared in response to “many requests” from groups of Anglican clergy and faithful wanting to enter into full communion with the Church. According to the new canonical structure this will happen while “preserving elements of distinctive Anglican spiritual patrimony,” said Cardinal Levada. Addressing the status of married clergy, the cardinal said that married Anglican clergy would be allowed to be ordained as Catholic priests like in the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Similarly, following the same tradition, those priests will not be allowed to be ordained bishops.
Catholic School System in Ireland Threatened
Ireland
Ireland’s bishops -- who operate 92% of the nation’s primary schools -- will begin negotiations with the government next month to hand over some of their 3,000 primary schools. The negotiations follow a request from Brigid McManus, the secretary general of the government’s Department of Education and Science, for a list of schools that the bishops would be willing to give to the government. The outcome will mean greater choice for parents. But it will also mean an end to the day when the nearest primary school was almost certain to be a Catholic school.
Anti-Ecumenical Orthodox Monks Punished
Cyprus
The head of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus has vowed to discipline Orthodox monks and clerics whose protest against a Catholic wedding led to the wedding’s cancellation. The priest had received permission to hold the wedding in an Orthodox church. Archbishop Chrysostomos II said that clerics who took part in the protest would be suspended without pay and that monks who took part would be denied Holy Communion for several weeks. “If they don’t like it, they should take off their robes and leave the formal Church,” he said. “Let them go and set up their own church.”
Russian Patriarch Urges UNESCO to collaborate with Churches
Russia
In a letter to Bulgarian politician Irina Bokova, who was elected UNESCO director general on October 15, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia urged UNESCO to collaborate with "traditional religious communities." The Patriarch said: "UNESCO justifiably plays a special role in working for peace between civilizations and for their mutual respect on the solid basis of moral values shared by the majority of people." Then he added: “These goals are achievable "only on condition of constructive interaction between UNESCO and traditional religious communities, which can make their contribution both to the educational and cultural activities of the organization and to dialogue between cultures and religions."
Anglo-Catholic Personal Prelature
Vatican
Yesterday in a Vatican press conference, Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, announced that an Apostolic Constitution has been prepared in response to “many requests” from groups of Anglican clergy and faithful wanting to enter into full communion with the Church. According to the new canonical structure this will happen while “preserving elements of distinctive Anglican spiritual patrimony,” said Cardinal Levada. Addressing the status of married clergy, the cardinal said that married Anglican clergy would be allowed to be ordained as Catholic priests like in the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Similarly, following the same tradition, those priests will not be allowed to be ordained bishops.
Catholic School System in Ireland Threatened
Ireland
Ireland’s bishops -- who operate 92% of the nation’s primary schools -- will begin negotiations with the government next month to hand over some of their 3,000 primary schools. The negotiations follow a request from Brigid McManus, the secretary general of the government’s Department of Education and Science, for a list of schools that the bishops would be willing to give to the government. The outcome will mean greater choice for parents. But it will also mean an end to the day when the nearest primary school was almost certain to be a Catholic school.
Anti-Ecumenical Orthodox Monks Punished
Cyprus
The head of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus has vowed to discipline Orthodox monks and clerics whose protest against a Catholic wedding led to the wedding’s cancellation. The priest had received permission to hold the wedding in an Orthodox church. Archbishop Chrysostomos II said that clerics who took part in the protest would be suspended without pay and that monks who took part would be denied Holy Communion for several weeks. “If they don’t like it, they should take off their robes and leave the formal Church,” he said. “Let them go and set up their own church.”
Russian Patriarch Urges UNESCO to collaborate with Churches
Russia
In a letter to Bulgarian politician Irina Bokova, who was elected UNESCO director general on October 15, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia urged UNESCO to collaborate with "traditional religious communities." The Patriarch said: "UNESCO justifiably plays a special role in working for peace between civilizations and for their mutual respect on the solid basis of moral values shared by the majority of people." Then he added: “These goals are achievable "only on condition of constructive interaction between UNESCO and traditional religious communities, which can make their contribution both to the educational and cultural activities of the organization and to dialogue between cultures and religions."