The White House announced the appointments to its faith advisory council today including The Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
Attendees at conferences of the North American Academy of Liturgy and the Catholic Academy of Liturgy in San Francisco are frustrated with the way the new Roman missal is being introduced and are displeased with the quality of the translation. In Ireland, the Association of Catholic Priests calls the missal “sexist, archaic, elitist and obscure,” and they want their Bishops to send it back to Rome.
Updated. By not showing up, the conservative primates assured that the Primates Meeting will never become the kind of definitive, authoritative council that they dream of.
The Church Times reports on the situation in Egypt, saying that Muslim youths have been guarding the Anglican cathedral in Cairo. An update from the Principal of the Alexandria School of Theology.
Members of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission will hold the first meeting of the third round of dialogue in May. One of the Anglican members was ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church and helped write “To Set Our Hope on Christ.”
The Most Rev. Dr. Mouneer Hanna Anis, Bishop of the Episcopal / Anglican Diocese of Egypt on the current situation in Egypt.
More news and commentary coming out of the death of David Kato and his funeral today.
UPDATED: The BBC and Reuters are reporting that the funeral for David Kato in Nakawala, Uganda, turned chaotic after the local Anglican priest began to berate gay people and refused to bury Kato’s body.
Theo Hobson says that he was just about to give up on organized religion because “all major forms of church were full of illiberal assumptions.” Then he found the Episcopal Church.