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Ruth Gledhill - Times Online - WBLG - Oct 7, 2008
As we reported in The Sunday Times and on a previous blog, attempts to exhume Cardinal John Henry Newman have failed because there is no body there to exhume. Libby Purves is among those who welcomed the end they hoped …
Also tagged: catholicism, church of england
Ruth Gledhill - Times Online - WBLG - Oct 4, 2008
On Thursday, having won the battle to exhume Cardinal John Henry Newman's body for its transfer to the Oratory in Birmingham, those paying their respects at the graveside had a bit of a shock. There was no body to …
Ruth Gledhill - Times Online - WBLG - Sep 22, 2008
A source in Rome (what delicious fun it is to be able to write that now) tells me the new Archbishop of Westminster is not to be announced imminently but it could well happen before December. Apparently the retiring …
Ruth Gledhill - Times Online - WBLG - Sep 9, 2008
These marble reliefs from Greek and Christian mausolea are in the Vatican museum in Rome, where the sacred sits next to the profane, a fitting paradigm for today's world that I feel confident will require no further …
Ruth Gledhill - Times Online - WBLG - Jul 20, 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury is shown here at last night's ecumenical service chatting to Russia's Archbishop Hilarion and the Greek representative. Cardinal's Kasper and Diaz from Rome are not here yet. As we touch on …
Also tagged: archbishop of canterbury, anglican communion, ecumenism, tec, lambeth conference, summer of schism
Ruth Gledhill - Times Online - WBLG - May 20, 2008
As Parliament prepares today to debate whether or not to lower the abortion time limit, Birmingham's Archbishop Vincent Nichols is being taken to task by the head of SPUC. Archbishop Nichols appears to have given a …
Also tagged: life, abortion, bioethics, catholicism, natural law
Ruth Gledhill - Times Online - WBLG - May 7, 2008
Hard words for Anglicans from the head of the Council for Christian Unity in Rome. Cardinal Walter Kasper has told the Catholic Herald that now, with Lambeth approaching, is the time for Anglicans to decide whether …
Also tagged: catholicism, church of england, ecumenism
Ruth Gledhill - Times Online - WBLG - Apr 20, 2008
This picture of Pope Benedict XVI, one of many that have come into The Times that we've not found room for in the paper, is so typically American.I was among those who trembled when Ratzinger the 'rottweiler' was …
Also tagged: politics, catholicism
Ruth Gledhill - Times Online - WBLG - Apr 3, 2008
Tony Blair spoke at Westminster Cathedral this evening. Our earlier reports are in this blog and this article. You can download the full speech here. But one thing of interest came early on, when he explained for the …
Also tagged: politics, catholicism
Ruth Gledhill - Times Online - WBLG - Mar 26, 2008
These are the monks of the 12th century Cistercian Abbey of the Holy Cross, just outside Vienna. They are overflowing with vocations from young men. And they've just been signed to Universal, joining stablemates such …
Also tagged: music, catholicism