Legislative body “moves in principle to adopt the statement on ordination provided that any gay and lesbian (takatapui) candidates/ordinands are carefully and prayerfully selected, supported and encouraged through their discernment process.”
Nowhere in any of the Rio Grande material were the candidates to respond directly to the question of homosexuality in the church, though Vono’s answers often do reflect a sense of how the issue has shaped the conflicts currently held by the wider Communion. And as anyone with an Internet connection can find out, his sympathies on any number of questions have already been made plain.
Citing a question posed recently in a Newsweek cover story titled “What Would Mary Do? How Women Can Save the Catholic Church from Its Sins,”
The feed is piping beautifully into Twitter, so we’re not sure why Facebook is having a lovely off and on relationship with it. Resetting it last Sunday worked until… Monday. So again, it’s quiet in Facebook. So we’re asking a question this week, just in case it’s still not working next week. What are your favorite pages and applications in Facebook? Who are your favorite people/entities to follow on Twitter–and why?
How is being Christian and single a gift to the church? What are the joys, pitfalls, highs and lows? What does singleness tell us about God?
Finally, I told Mark I’d had a touching, truthful-feeling conversation with a prisoner. “How wonderful,” Mark said. “Isn’t is a privilege that we get to have these conversations with them in the jail where they’re sober? Jail makes it easier for us to see how beautiful they are. You can’t see that on the outside.” But Mark,” I protested. “Don’t you expect things can change for them?”
He whose goodness is his own nature and not some nonessential gift, says, “I am the good Shepherd.” He adds the character of this goodness, which we are to imitate, saying, “The good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” He did what he taught; he gave an example of what he commanded.