The November 2 Western Catholic Reporter celebrates Catholic Education Sunday. Our special supplement includes a look at religious education in Catholic schools.

We continue to follow the story of the Vatican’s olive branch offered to traditionalist Anglicans and talk with a leader of a local Anglican group that may decide to cross the Tiber.

In international news, a leading African cardinal gets a top-ranking job at the Vatican. Cardinal Peter Turkson is more and more being considered papabile — pope-able. The Synod of Bishops for Africa wraps up and decries the fact “many Catholics in high (political) office have fallen woefully short in their performances in office.”