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Church in the WorldCourt backs apostasy bidSpain Graham Keeley - 14 June 2008Spain's leading court has ordered a bishop to hand over baptism records to a person seeking to annul their membership of the Catholic Church, writes Graham Keeley. In the first ruling of its kind, Spain's Audiencia Nacional ordered Adolfo González Montes, Bishop of Almeria in Andalusia, to hand over baptism records to the person, who wanted to remain anonymous in court. The court ruled against Bishop González, who argued that as baptism records were the property of the Church and "not public records", the claimant had no right to them. The case began in 2006 when an application was made to have the claimant's records deleted from Church's baptism register. It comes in the wake of a movement by those seeking apostasy, or to leave the Church, to have any records of baptism destroyed. |
 In this week’s issueMaking markets moral Iron and velvet Love in a Catholic climate Someone to talk to A good Lent takes planning South American surprise Is the Church too slow in recognising that academies are the future for Catholic schools? Christopher Lamb Goodwin the scapegoat Elena Curti The pain of being a coeliac Catholic Sr M, guest contributor Why the Benedictine family will survive Christopher Lamb The Church's moral obligation to victims of clerical sexual abuse Speeches from this week's conference in Rome This week in Rome bishops and religious superiors met at the first Vatican-backed symposium devoted to forging a global response to the crisis of clerical sexual abuse that has disgraced ... Archbishop voices 'shame and sorrow' after priest's abuse trial Longley to visit parishes 'damaged' by Walsh Today, Tuesday 7 February, Bede Walsh, who served as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, has been convicted by a jury, following a 10-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent ...
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