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Is Pope Benedict a closet liberal?
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jmcgee
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…
“We’ve been praying for this for two years”
By
jmcgee
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…
Maureen Dowd on “The Nuns’ Story”
By
jmcgee
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…
Is The Exodus beginning?
By
jmcgee
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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