You too can own The Anglican Communion Covenant Study Guide and ancillaries. Who needs our analysis when we have the Pluralist’s fisking (more here)?
In light of these very serious developments, I feel compelled to issue a godly directive to all of the clergy of the diocese not to engage in, conduct, or conclude negotiations without first discussing such actions with me, or with Canon Mary, and with our chancellor.
PolOffs met with Bahati on December 15 to provide recent statements by Rick Warren and others against the anti-homosexuality bill. At Bahati’s request, the meeting occurred at the Anglican Church of Uganda’s headquarters where Bahati said he was reviewing the legislation with Anglican Church leaders. XXXXXXXXXXXX Bahati entered our meeting with a document entitled “The 10 Deadly Sins of Homosexuality
From The Guardian: A lot happened to me in Uganda before I came to seek refuge here. I was imprisoned for being gay. I was
Late last week, a new iPhone app designed to help Catholics prepare for the confessional made its debut. The app tailors its questions to a
As I write these lines, there is a new spirit among Egyptians. It is a spirit of anticipation and hope for a new future for a new Egypt. Yesterday people started to sweep and clean Tahrir Square after 18 days of demonstrations. If this can tell us anything, it tells us that Egyptians now have a sense of ownership for their country.
The primates’ meeting is relatively new – when I was a child, there was no such thing. That was a time when ordinary people’s views were valued in church and society. The 1968 Lambeth Conference recommended “that no major issue in the life of the church should be decided without the full participation of the laity in discussion and in decision”.
Coptic priests fear Egyptian youth will turn away from Church. Maryknoll Fr Douglas May, who worked in Egypt for 18 years of Mubarak’s nearly 30-year rule, said he thought “the Christian leaders in Egypt played it safe”. Fr May, now stationed in Nairobi, said: “I’m afraid that the Church leadership has lost its credibility with the Christian youth over this.”
The Primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, The Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, will on Wednesday, begin a three-day pastoral visit to the United Kingdom during which he will meet with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
A spokesman for the Anglican Communion Office told CEN “Canon Prof McIntosh is a canon residentiary of Durham and is licensed as a priest in the Church of England. So he is not prevented from being a member of Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission.” (Even though he is American and authored “To Set Our Hope on Christ.”)