“There are clear guidelines set out in the Anglican Consultative Council Reports detailing the steps necessary for the amendments of existing provincial constitutions and the creation of new provinces. Once begun, any of these processes will take years to complete. In relation to the recent announcement from the meeting of the Common Cause Partnership in Chicago, the process has not yet begun.
What if all the conservatives accomplish is the creation of a tiny church of some 80,000 people that is recognized by a dozen Anglican primates and is invisible in most of North America? Wouldn’t the Times’ coverage look a little rash in retrospect?
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has joined 39 other U.S. Christian leaders in calling on President-elect Barack Obama to make lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace a priority during his first year in office. Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP), of which the Episcopal Church is a member, is circulating the leaders’ December 1 letter.
Every now and then we get an email asking how to submit an article to the Café. We’ve now created an email address for that purpose: thetransom@episcopal.cafe.
Dow Jones reports that Generation Investment Management, a green fund headed by Al Gore, has been allocated £50m by the Church of England Commissioners. Originally
The Rt. Rev. Keith L. Ackerman, who resigned last month as Bishop of Quincy — in the brief interval between coming back from sabbatical and
Contrary to news reports that a new North American province pledging allegiance to the Anglican Communion is being created today, such is not the case.
Archbishop Akinola said that it was unfortunate that some people were still engaged in killing and aiming at a time when the nation should be counting the gains of democracy.
The Vatican will oppose a proposed U.N. declaration calling for an end to discrimination against homosexuals. The proposal, which has the backing of all 27 European Union countries, calls for an end to the practice of criminalizing and punishing people for their sexual orientation. Most dramatically in some countries homosexuality can be punished by death.
The Diocese of Mauritius became the latest diocese in the Anglican Province of the Indian Ocean to accept women’s ordination to the priesthood. The Anglican Province of the Indian Ocean is led by Archbishop Ian Ernest and includes seven dioceses throughout Madagascar, Mauritius, and Seychelles.