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Williams visits Lourdes

September 26, 2008 No Comments

The Archbishop of Canterbury visited Lourdes earlier this week, the site where the Virgin Mary is supposed to have appeared to St. Bernadette. He was

English archbishops on Marx and the markets

September 25, 2008 3 Comments

Rowan Williams has written a searching moral examination of the free market financial system which has been badly caricatured in initial news reports. It contains

Archbishop of Canterbury encourgages cooperation on MDGs

September 24, 2008 3 Comments

Lambeth Palace: On the eve of the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Millennium Development Goals in New York, the Archbishop of Canterbury has underlined

The Guardian takes note

September 5, 2008 1 Comment

Riazat Butt of the Guardian has written a brief article about Bishop John Bryson Chane’s column on the Lambeth Conference that appeared on the Cafe earlier this week.

The Lambeth Conference:
The turning point that wasn’t

September 2, 2008 1 Comment

This Lambeth Conference could have been a positive turning point for the Anglican Communion, but instead the powers that be chose to seek a middle way that is neither “the middle” nor “the way.” It will therefore be up to bishops from around the Communion who have continuing partner and companion relationships to work toward a more holistic view of the church.

Clear as mud

August 28, 2008 3 Comments

At Lambeth’s final press conference, Rowan Williams attempted to offers some clarity on what he means by a moratorium on same sex blessings. A reading of the transcript suggests that in his view, the proposed moratorium on “same sex blessings” is on the authorization of rites for same sex blessings, not on the practice of providing such blessings. But not so fast…

“Sole test of Orthodoxy”

August 18, 2008 3 Comments

In the correspondence that was released last week which disclosed the Archbishop of Canterbury’s private opinion on morality of same-sex relationships, there was one small point made by the Archbishop that not many people have noticed.

The ABC and “facts on the ground”

August 12, 2008 14 Comments

The most important “facts on the ground” were not created by us, whether “innovators” or “traditionalists,” whether primates or bishops or synodical structures. The most important “facts on the ground” were created by God. They are the men and women whom we might serve, to whom we might reach out, and whom we might invite into our midst.

Comment is free: “I am not the Archbishop of Canterbury”

August 10, 2008 5 Comments

Equipped with a variety of subtle ways to move the Anglican Communion toward a fuller understanding of human sexuality, he can initiate imperceptible advances on one front while publicly taking a hard line on the other. There are wheels within wheels, and he can make them all spin. He is the Archbishop of Canterbury. But I am not. And neither are you.

The Archbishop of Canterbury responds

August 8, 2008 17 Comments

Earlier this week we covered the controversy surrounding the release of letters by the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that his private beliefs on the sanctity of same-sex unions were at odds with the official position of the Lambeth Conference. The Archbishop has released a statement in response.

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