October 29, 2009
Richard Owen in Rome
A row has broken out behind the Vatican walls over the "confusion" surrounding Pope Benedict XVI's opening to disaffected Anglicans, according to a papal biographer. Andrea Tornielli, the biographer of several modern Popes including Pope Benedict, said that just over a week after its existence was revealed by the Vatican, the text of the Apostolic Constitution laying down the conditions for the creation of a new "Anglo-Catholic" section of the Church was still not ready for publication. This was not because of translation problems but "something more serious", Mr Tornielli said. There was still debate behind the scenes over priestly celibacy...
Read the rest on The Times Online.
Sir Thomas ... and three centuries later (2)
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So Thomas Blackburn iniquitously secreted away alabaster tablets within
Ripon church; subsequently, he denied having removed them from the church!
Which, o...
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