That’s the question posed by my friend and former Beliefnetizen David Gibson in today’s Washington Post:  Thus far, Benedict’s papacy has been one of constant movement and change, the sort of dynamic that liberal Catholics — or Protestants — are usually criticized for pursuing. In Benedict’s case, this liberalism serves a conservative agenda. But his…

The New York Times has this intriguing look at one Anglo-Catholic parish that may be one of the first to jump across the Tiber: When the Vatican announced last week that it would welcome groups of traditionalist Anglicans into the Roman Catholic Church, leaders of one Episcopal parish celebrated as if a ship had arrived…

I’m sure this will be getting plenty of play around the blogosphere over the next few days — that sound you hear in the distance is William Donohue, barking out another angry press release — but here’s a first look at what Maureen Dowd has to say about nuns, the church, the pope and anything…

Reading this kind of news, you have to wonder: The Rt Rev John Hind, the Bishop of Chichester, has announced he is considering becoming a Roman Catholic in a move that could spark an exodus of clergy. Bishop Hind said he would be “happy” to be reordained as a Catholic priest and said that divisions…

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