Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things."
"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Now that it’s all systems go for women bishops in the Church of England there is once again excited talk of Anglicans coming over to Rome in their thousands, and bringing with them their own liturgical patrimony, their own bells and smells, and, in the case of married clergymen, their own wives, children and au pairs. We may be about to witness the first fruits of Pope Benedict’s Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus.














