Author: Episcopal Cafe

ABC and the Sticky Wicket

The Archbishop of Canterbury took a break from one sticky wicket for another. ++Rowan Williams could be found in Telford launching a new ale “Sticky

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Clergy abuse victims rally at Vatican

…participants stood up one by one to tell of lives devastated by the abuse they suffered as children, of the guilt and shame and solitude they suffered in the belief that they were alone. “It’s time to stop the stonewalling and denial, The pope … has to do something about this world crisis. It’s like a tsunami over the world, and he has got to do something.”

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Mega church pastor “comes out” to help gay teens

The recent rash of suicides by gay youths who were tormented at school for their sexuality provided the impetus for Swilley’s public disclosure, the pastor told Atlanta news station WSB-TV. As a father…Think about your 16, 17-year-old killing themselves. I thought somebody needed to say something.”

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Bishops of LA and CA join Amicus Brief for marriage equality

Proposition 8 amounts to an unconstitutional codification of hostility toward loving relationships of gay men and lesbian women, yet does nothing at all to advance anyone’s religious liberty. Quite the contrary, religious freedom is diminished when government imposes the doctrines of some faith traditions on all.

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