From the Rev. Dr. James B. Simons: Today we received recognition as the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh in the Episcopal Church and because of the absence of a Bishop, the ecclesiastical authority. I am also pleased to announce that The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh will be holding a reorganizing Convention on Saturday December 13th
Andy, not Jeffrey, is elected a bishop in the Church in Wales.
The Southern Cone ” cannot, under their own rules, accept a diocese from outside the territory listed in their constitution. … On top of that, there is no way under generally accepted canonical principles that they can receive and license a bishop or other cleric who has been deposed, or who has voluntarily relinquished his or her orders.”
Lucy Bannerman’s article in The Times Online describes a few days spent at a camp run by Exodus International, an organization that believes it can help people to “find freedom from homosexuality through the love of Jesus Christ.” Exodus and similar groups are popular on the Anglican right.
There is no one way that politics and religion interrelate. It’s a many-sided relationship, sometimes mutually supporting, sometimes contradictory, never simple. And this time of year, I’m reminded that whatever politics thinks of organized religion, there’s always been a strand of our religious heritage that has been deeply skeptical of organized politics.
In the opinion of Luard, the editor of [Robert Grosseteste’s] Letters, “probably no one has had a greater influence upon English thought and English literature for the two centuries that followed his age.” Wyclif ranks him even above Aristotle, and Gower calls him “the grete clerc.”
Updated: The Buffalo News The Diocese of Western New York reports: On Tuesday, October 7, 2008, the Rt. Rev. J. Michael Garrison, Bishop of the
The John Templeton Foundation asked thirteen thinkers this big question: Does the free market corrode moral character?
Diocese of Virginia attorneys have produced two 18th-century land deeds that say Christ Church possesses the property. The deeds say the land was owned by “Truro parish,” the designation for Colonial churches in Pohick, Alexandria and Falls Church. The diocese unearthed two U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 1815 and 1824 saying that Christ Church is the successor to Truro parish and that the Falls Church was a ward of the Alexandria congregation.
His job is to try to hold the Anglican church together through its darkest days for centuries. So why on earth did the Archbishop of Canterbury take last summer off to write about Dostoevsky?