The Roman Catholic Bishop of St Petersburg, Florida, has written a blog piece, republished by the Washington Post, in which he confesses that religion has all
“Seeking assisted dying is a reflection of the struggle for a quality of life upheld by a deep and abiding belief in the sacredness of life.”
A special convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Easton June 11 elected the Rt. Rev. Santosh K. Marray as the 11th bishop of the Diocese of Easton.
Anger, shock, and deep sadness – those seem to be the prevailing sentiments expressed over the mass shooting in Orlando by the public, and they have been echoed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and a number of Bishops in the Episcopal Church.
The delegates of the Scottish Episcopal Church mostly debated calmly and then took a vote with regard to the marriage canon of that church. Soon after the vote was taken in General Synod, the Scottish Anglican Network promulgated on its website an open letter to members of the SEC from the Global Anglican Future Conference’s entities in the United Kingdom, the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans UK and the Anglican Mission in England.
The Mennonite Church USA (MC-USA) is the result of the union of two predecessor churches in 2002. There has been tension in the Church since the union in 2002 with regard to human sexuality. After about 15 years of union, the Mennonite Church USA is disintegrating as various churches pull out of the parent denomination.
The Executive Council of TEC met this week, from the 8th until the 10th, at the Oak Ridge Hotel & Conference Center in Chaska MN.
Pope Francis has elevated the celebration of St. Mary Magdalene, July 22nd, from that of a “memorial” to a “feast,” recognizing her as the first witness to Christ’s resurrection and as a “true and authentic evangelizer.”
Bishop Brian Seage of Mississippi has decided that clergy in the diocese may perform marriages for same-sex couples without advance permission.
The change is to remove from the Canon the doctrinal statement regarding marriage that marriage is to be understood as a union “of one man and one woman.”