A place in the city From The Tablet: When a cardinal is appointed, along with the red hat, and all that that means, he is given one of Rome's titular churches. The allocation of who gets what is sometimes random - but not always.
Cardinal Paradox From the Tablet, at a time of an ailing Pope, the voice of Joseph Ratzinger is increasingly heard as that of the Vatican. And yet, the Church￢ﾀﾙs enforcer is also a singular freethinker. From American politicians, to women, and Turkey, his views have dominated the headlines this year - by John Allen.
Catholic Encyclopedia Information about the Hierarchy of the Catholic Church from the online version of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Catholic Hierarchy This is an extremely well researched online database containing current and historical information about bishops and dioceses throughout the world.
COMECE COMECE is the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community. It is made up of Bishops delegated by the Catholic Bishops' Conferences of the European Union and it has a permanent Secretariat in Brussels.
Constitution on the Church Chapter 3 of Lumen Gentium deals specifically with the hierarchical structure of the church and in particular the episcopate.
Debate over role of 'bishop' in apostolic succession is a church-dividing issue From Richard McBrien: It is one thing to affirm the connection between the present-day church and the church of the apostles. It is quite another to explain the basis of that connection. In what sense is the church of today in “apostolic succession” with the church of the first century of the Christian era?
