The long-awaited Apostolic Constitution, offering a new way for large numbers of Anglicans to cross the Tiber, has finally been published. Read it all right here.

Noted British author G. P. Taylor is about to swim the Tiber: Vicar-turned-author Rev G P Taylor says he will desert the “sinking ship” Church of England, which he said was the “spiritual arm of New Labour”, for Roman Catholicism. The Rev Taylor, whose children’s book Shadowmancer became an international best-seller, said he was turning…

I had no idea this religious order had such an unusual history: One hundred years before Pope Benedict XVI captured headlines by establishing a special structure for Anglicans who want to be in full communion with the Catholic Church, the Franciscan Friars and Sisters of the Atonement became the first religious group to be received…

So says Vatican Radio, denying previous reports that the problem was all about the celibacy issue: “There has been widespread speculation, based on supposedly knowledgeable remarks by an Italian correspondent Andrea Tornielli, that the delay in publication of the Apostolic Constitution regarding Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church, announced…

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