Time, Like an ever-rolling stream. . .

This short item from the Sunday Times suggests that change does happen in the Roman Church. It might be slow, it might be secret, it might have to happen in Scotland, but it happens.

Faith News
Compiled by Luke Coppen

A former priest of the Episcopal Church is preparing to become the first married Roman Catholic priest to be ordained in Scotland. The Rev James Bell will be ordained at a ceremony in Inverness on March 2. Married former Anglican priests have been ordained as Catholic priests in England and taken up posts in Scotland, but this will be the first time such a ceremony has taken place north of the border. The Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen, the Right Rev Peter Moran, said: “James Bell’s experience and personal qualities will be of great value in our diocese. Although a married priest is an unfamiliar idea for Catholics in this country, I am confident that we will all welcome James in his new role and Lesley as his wife.”