Now that the California Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Episcopal Church, what sort of ramifications will the ruling have on the ongoing dispute between Provinces of the Anglican Communion? An article in US News and World Report argues that they will be significant.
The flooding in Southern Africa has elicited the prayers and the support of people across the region as they attempt to help the victims. The
Bishop Steven Miller has announced that the Diocese of Milwaukee has decided to sue the congregation of St. Edmund’s Church in Elk Grove to return
Father Neuhaus, a Roman Catholic convert from the Lutheran Church died on January 8th of complications from his cancer treatments. Neuhaus was best known as
Parishioners sometimes come up to the Rev. John Perris after Sunday worship and pull him aside.
“I need to have a conversation with you. I have started to cut back,” they’ll say. “Not everybody will tell me that they lost their job,” said Perris, pastor at St. James Episcopal Church on Valley Road. “But whether the economy is awful, or when there are other things happening, people are still coming to church.”
Updated with a full set of links from Thinking Anglicans. A press release from the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh of the Episcopal Church of the
They have claimed martyrdom without having suffered. They have claimed sacrifice without giving anything up and dispossession without any loss. They have claimed the past whilst being, very much, a product of their modern, consumerist culture. Now they have the opportunity to test their commitment to the principles they have … tried… to impose on the rest of the Anglican Communion.
There will always be people who do not fit into what society terms “normal.” I also know that the kingdom of God has most often been hidden among the “freaks and the misfits.” Today we in polite society would, like both of their families did, try to have Jesus and St. Francis committed and stabilized on medication.
Even if one accepts the tortured logic of Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s encyclical on birth control (which is widely disregarded by the faithful) it is still difficult to make sense of two recent Roman pronouncements on contraception. Especially the one about the dangers of female urine.
Bishop Edward MacBurney, whose brief inhibition by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was a cause celebre among conservative Anglicans, has agreed to lead the breakaway