More reasons to go to confession
March 11, 2008
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The Vatican announced a new list of additional sins that should be added to the traditional reasons for confession. According to a report by Reuters:
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Global South Anglicans at crossroad
March 11, 2008
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… global South Anglicans are at a crossroad in 2008. Whither it goes should not be left to the primates. It is a matter of prime concern for all Anglicans in the Southern Hemisphere. Our homes are at stake; our Communion is at stake
What are we waiting for?
March 11, 2008
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I didn’t know Eve Carson, and yet when I read that she’d been killed with a handgun on a suburban street near the UNC Chapel Hill campus, I could hardly take my eyes off her photograph. Less than a year has passed since the Virginia Tech shootings, when 32 students were killed. Just last month, at Northern Illinois University, a gunman shot five people. And only one day earlier, Lauren Burke, an Auburn University freshman, died of a single gunshot wound.
Somebody there
March 11, 2008
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Most of all, we don’t want to be alone. We may long for some peace and quiet, assaulted as we are by the needs of other people all day. But we don’t want there to be no one for whom we matter. We want somebody to be there.
Bishop Gene Robinson responds
March 10, 2008
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Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire responded to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s decision not to invite him to the Lambeth Conference today at the House of Bishops meeting: “One workshop on one afternoon and being interviewed by the secular press was not anything I was seeking. I wasn’t going to Lambeth to have another interview with the secular press.”
Full invitation for Robinson “not possible”
March 10, 2008
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The House of Bishops was informed March 10 that full invitation is “not possible” from the Archbishop of Canterbury to include Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire as a participant in this summer’s Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops. Robinson, addressing the House, urged the other bishops of the Episcopal Church to participate fully in the conference, and thanked all who are willing to “stay at the table.”
Praying for the “lost”
March 10, 2008
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Rabbi Jacob Nuesner says that Catholics and other Christians have a right to pray for the conversion of the Jews, as much as Jews have
United Church of Christ investigated by IRS
March 10, 2008
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The IRS has granted a three-week extension for the United Church of Christ to respond to an investigation the agency has begun because presidential candidate
Greener palms for Palm Sunday
March 10, 2008
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USA Today says that in many churches Palm Sunday is going green by using palms harvested using an environmentally friendly method. This year, more than
Rebuilding Communion
March 10, 2008
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Thinking Anglicans reports that St Deiniols Library is publishing a book called Rebuilding Communion. The aim of this book is threefold: firstly, to provide a
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