Category: The Lead

Fort Worth begins steps to depose former Episcopal clergy

Bishop Edwin Gulick, provisional bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, says that he will soon begin the required deposition process for the 72 clergy who left the Episcopal Church to join the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. but has offered one more chance for these priests and deacons to clarify their intent to remain in the Episcopal Church or not.

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Thew Forrester’s chances dim

We have stopped charting every twist and turn in the Rev. Kevin Thew Forrester’s saga, but the decison of the Bishop and Standing Committee of the Diocese of Los Angeles to withhold consent to his election is a serious blow to his chances of being confirmed. .

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Arrest warrant issued for Don Armstrong

KKTV in Colorado Springs, CO reports that the police have issued a warrant for the arrest of the Rev. Donald Armstrong, who left the Episcopal Church to join the more theologically conservative Convocation of Anglican Churches in North America (CANA), for failure to appear at a hearing on Wednesday.

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Obama designates new Vatican ambassador

For starters, with Sotomayor this makes for a serious one-two punch with Latinos. It’s very interesting that he’s a theologian rather than your basic Catholic pol or lawyer type. … This strikes me as the shrewdest of moves, and one that will cause no end of teeth-grinding on the Catholic right, including the likes of Archbishop Burke.

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Controversial Rev. Cutié joins Episcopal Church

The Rev. Alberto Cutié, the celebrity priest removed from his Miami Beach church after photos of him kissing and embracing a woman appeared in the pages of a Spanish-language magazine earlier this month, will leave the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami to join the Episcopal Church.

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