by Sean Reilly | Jan 14, 2008
My friend and neighbour Father Andrew Greeley, sociologist, novelist, and columnist, reminded me in a recent e-mail that he liked to be called a “Catholic,” not a “Roman Catholic.” In his Chicago Sun-Times column earlier this month (January...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 1, 2008
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the spiritual leader of the Roman catholic Church in England and Wales, has used his New Year message to stress the importance of marriage and what are thought of as “traditional family values”. He claimed that most...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 9, 2007
A senior Vatican official has said the Roman Catholic Church welcomes a new Global Christian Forum intended to bring together the diverse strands of Christianity as never before – writes Fredrick Nzwili in Nairobi. “When Christians are divided, the...