Author: Andrew Gerns

Presiding Bishop speaks out on Uganda anti-gay law

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has issued a statement expressing concern about the pending Ugandan legislation that would introduce the death penalty for people who violate portions of that country’s anti-homosexuality laws.

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Atheists organize

The Baltimore Sun reports on atheists who are beginning to organize into something that looks like an organized religion. They are even meeting in a church.

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Anderson condemns Uganda anti-gay law

Episcopal Church House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson has condemed the pending Ugandan legislation that would imprison for life or execute people who violate that country’s anti-homosexuality laws.

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Porous floors and changed lives

When James Warren heard that his column describing All Saints Episcopal Church on Chicago’s North Side and their ministry to the homeless might have motivated someone to vandalize the church, he felt terrible. On visiting the parish, he was surprised at what he found.

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Our choice: speak out together or abandon the persecuted.

The draconian anti-homosexuality bill currently being proposed in Uganda might be an opportunity for churches to experience some unity around issues of sexuality unless continued silence will be seen as abandonment of gays and lesbians by the Church. It is our choice.

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Report on child sexual abuse in Ireland released

The Irish Times reports that the Commission of Investigation into Dublin’s Catholic Archdiocese has concluded that there is “no doubt” that clerical child sexual abuse was covered up by the archdiocese and other Church authorities.

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Whalon on The Pope, Rowan Williams, and Henry VIII

Pierre Whalon, Bishop of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe respond to the recent Apostolic Constitution issued by Pope Benedict XVI aimed at disaffected Anglicans and praised the Archbishop of Canterbury’s response to it.

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