Catholic Council of India has expressed its condolences at the demise of Dr. Daniel Acharuparampil, Archbishop of Varapuzha and president of the Kerala Catholic Bishops Council.In a statement here, CCI vice-president Abraham Arakal said the demise of the Archbishop was an irreparable loss to the Indian Church itself.The leadership he gave and the interventions he made in social issues upholding Christian...
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Catholic reformist Joseph Pulikkunnel has called for a social mechanism to rehabilitate those who give up nunhood. In his message at a seminar on ‘Problems faced by nuns in the Catholic Church’ organised by Kerala Catholic Federation here on Saturday Mr. Pulikkunnel pointed out that many nuns were silently suffering the harassment at convents.“Those who leave the order are not acceptable by their own...
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New rules on admission to the Roman Catholic Church have been hailed by some discontented Anglicans as an answer to their prayers. But not by all.Since the Church of England first ordained women priests in the 1990s several hundred Anglicans have taken the road to Rome; many married Anglican priests have been ordained in the Roman Catholic church.The Apostolic Constitution, holding out to Anglicans...
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future of the Anglican Communion looks “more than usually chaotic and uncertain”, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has admitted.In what amounted to a plea to the Church of England’s Anglo-Catholics to resist the temptation to convert to Roman Catholicism over the issue of women bishops, he said: “God knows what the future holds for any of us” He insisted, however, that it remained possible...
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Archbishop of Canterbury has mounted a direct challenge to the Roman Catholic Church's stance against the ordination of women priests.In a speech in Rome today, he made clear there could be no turning back of the clock on women priests to appease the Pope, the Catholic Church or malcontents in the Church of England.He dismissed the Pope's plan to welcome disaffected Anglicans into the Catholic Church...
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head of the Church of England has personally confronted the Pope over attempts by the Catholic Church to convert disillusioned Anglicans.Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, voiced his protest at a meeting at the Vatican Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI following the Pope's offer last month to arrange a mass conversion of Church of England followers.The meeting, which lasted barely 20 minutes,...
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Less than 12 months after resigning from the Church of England to head for Rome in 1994, the Rev Peter Bolton, 51, was back in the Anglican fold complaining of isolation and loneliness.Father Bolton, who was at a church in Royton, Greater Manchester, and who now ministers in Weston-super-Mare, warned Anglicans of the pitfalls of moving.“I never really felt part of the Catholic Church,” he said. “I...
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on.His speech at a pontifical university in Rome came a month after Pope Benedict invited alienated Anglicans to join the Catholic Church, a move some Anglicans criticized as a bid to woo away those opposed to women bishops.Several member churches of the 77-million strong worldwide Anglican Communion have women bishops -- the Episcopal Church in the United States has a female head, Bishop Katharine...
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Stanford says that for 470 years the Church of England has " been walking a careful middle line, halfway between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism" ("Has the Pope outfoxed the Archbishop", 25 October). The position on the Protestant-Catholic continuum varied in accordance with the views of the reigning monarch. So, Henry VIII was more "Catholic" than his son Edward, who was more "Protestant" than...
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Catholic Church, worried at the “evil influence” of television on people, has issued a circular warning against the dangers of watching sex and violence in the drawing room, especially for the youth.In Kerala, which has the largest number of Catholics in the country, the circular was issued yesterday. It was titled “Family and Media”.The family commission of the Catholic Bishops’ Council will issue...
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