The Diocese of Virginia filed formal notice on Feb. 3 of its intent to appeal, to the Virginia Supreme Court, a Fairfax County Circuit Court decision issued last month which ruled 11 congregations disaffiliated from The Episcopal Church were the owners of the local church property under Virginia law.
The Primates reviewed the report of the Windsor Continuation Group (WCG), which Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has asked be kept private until the primates have concluded their meeting. In other news, the Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner responds to Archbishop Aspinall’s report on the Covenant drafting process.
Many Episcopalians would be surprised to learn that Haiti is home to the largest and, by some measures, the strongest diocese within the Church. This certainly came as a surprise to me when I accompanied Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on her pastoral visit to the Diocese of Haiti last November. Our five-day pilgrimage, in fact, was filled with the unexpected.
Our ability to make room for others, and the joy we do or do not find in such activity, depends largely on our experience of being accepted or not.
NPR: The Reichman case is not isolated. Four ultra-Orthodox rabbis in Brooklyn have been sued or arrested for abusing boys in the past three years.
We request that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Chair of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa, in consultation with the Church of the Province of Central Africa, commission a Representative to go to Zimbabwe to exercise a ministry of presence and to show solidarity with the Zimbabwean people.
Signficantly, George also asserts that full reconciliation between the Vatican and the four un-excommunicated bishops of the Society of Saint Pius X, including Williamson, will require “their assent to all that the Church professes, including the teachings of the Second Vatican Council.” That is important because the Second Vatican Council resulted in the church’s renunciation of anti-Semitism and led to a historic warming of relations between Catholics and Jews.
CNN: Millard Fuller, who founded Habitat for Humanity International along with his wife, has died, officials said Tuesday. He was 74. Fuller died early Tuesday
The single woman who delivered octuplets already had six children under the age of seven. What was her fertility doctor thinking? USA Today poses some
The primates got down to business on day 2, and there are several reports mostly drawing of the end of day news conference given by the primates’ media spokesperson, the Most Rev. Philip Aspinall, Archbishop of Australia.