Millworker
September 6, 2010
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Swearing to my sorrow that a young girl ought to stand a better chance.
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Malcolm French on opposing the Covenant
September 6, 2010
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The “final draft” of the Covenant … is a profoundly unAnglican coup d’eglise, which would see Anglican theology and ecclesiology redrawn as a Frankenstein’s monster with the authoritarian centralism of Rome and the reactionary instincts of the American religious right financiers of the ponderous prelates who have manufactured the present crisis.
The new Know-Nothing-ism
September 6, 2010
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When the residents of this aristocratic avenue discovered that they were in danger of seeing a Roman Catholic church spring up among them, with all that the establishment of such a church implied, they bestirred themselves to oppose the project. The wisest of the Roman Catholics here did not favor it, and St. Mary’s was induced to exchange the lot for a good one in some other locality.”
Pope not ‘fishing’ on UK visitation
September 5, 2010
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Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols says that despite recent overtures to Anglicans through the instrument of an ordinariate, Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming trip to the UK isn’t for tossing out lures.
Irish Catholic reform priests: small group, big dreams
September 5, 2010
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“Some years ago I was walking to the Mater Private Hospital to visit a good friend, Archbishop Joe Cassidy. On the way, I passed a group of teenagers who shouted, ‘Abused any children lately, Father?'”
God may want a minute alone with Stephen Hawking
September 5, 2010
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Such words about the necessity of God bring to mind Napoleon’s conversation with Pierre-Simon LaPlace, who, when asked by Bonaparte why he hadn’t mentioned God in an entire book about the system of the universe, famously replied, “Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis.”
Sunday Social Hour
September 5, 2010
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One thing we have been able to figure out about Facebook’s recent quirkiness: it’s not “spamming” you when we invariably pipe in 5-6 new items at a time. We know this because whenever the feed updates, we get plenty of comments on the one or two items that DO get posted to your walls, but none of the rest. So just consider the wall update you do see to be a nudge to check the site for new posts, or the Facebook page for new notes.
Anglicans report in from post-quake Christchurch
September 5, 2010
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“My prayers go out to all those in the diocese who have been impacted by the earthquake,” the bishop writes. “We praise God that there were no deaths or severe injuries and my thoughts are with those parishes that have received significant damage.”
Toy Story III: New Members
September 4, 2010
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It’s surprising sometimes the places where we can recognize the best and worst of congregational life reflected in the media. Cynthia Weems sees clear paralles
Saturday Collection 09/04/2010
September 4, 2010
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Most of the congregations of the Episcopal Church seem to be working hard behind the scenes to get ready as parishioners return from summer vacations,
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