At its General Synod which is underway, the Church of Ireland will vote on a motion to approve the Anglican Covenant. In his presidential address
Primates who did not attend the Dublin Primates meeting have issued a statement through Gafcon complaining about decisions made in their absence that underscored that
Of course, ‘proper justice’ is hard to come by internationally. America regularly casts the UN (and the International Criminal Court) as the hapless sheriff, and so continues to play the world’s undercover policeman. The UK has gone along for the ride. What will we do when new superpowers arise and try the same trick on us?
“The thrust of today’s decision does not diminish the Supreme Court’s earlier opinion that clearly found, based on the record before it, that the property belongs to the diocese and wider church,” Shiner said, citing the Court of Appeal’s 2010 opinion in favor of the diocese and wider church.
ENS reports today on the capital campaign to raise $15 million to endow the College of Bishops amd the largely negative comments it has drawn since it was reported on Tuesday here at the Cafe, at The Episcopal Cafe Facebook page and elsewhere.
This article about about women who have children and have made the ordination vow has popped up in enough places it seems appropriate that our
10 Downing Street and Lambeth Palace have announced the appointment of new “episcopal visitors.” The previous bishops of Ebbsfleet and Richborough resigned to join the Catholic Church. The positions exist due to members of the Church of England who do not accept the episcopal leadership of a woman.
… killing of an unarmed man is always going to leave a very uncomfortable feeling because it doesn’t look as if justice is seen to be done, in those circumstances. I think it is also true that the different versions of events that have emerged in recent days have not done a great deal to help here.
Although the data, culled from a telephone-based surveillance study, did not allow for an in-depth analysis of the reasons underlying end-of-life choices, religious beliefs appeared to play an important role. The authors found that patients who said that their life expectancy “was in God’s hands” were more willing to deplete their savings.
In his presidential address to the church’s governing body, Dr. Morgan laid out a plan for a thorough review of the Church in Wales, adding, “One thing that will help us as we embark on this process if we feel a bit threatened or beleaguered, is the knowledge that some of the issues we face are trivial in comparison with the problems faced by some of our sister churches in the Anglican Communion.” He also spoke about the Primates meeting in Dublin earlier in the year.