Bishop Chris Epting, the Presiding Bishop’s Deputy for Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations issued a statement in reaction to the Vatican’s creation of a Personal Ordinariate structure for disaffected Anglicans. In short, he sees it as flying in the face of the slow but steady work of traditional ecumenism.
The Russian Orthodox Church has decided to end 50 years of dialogue with the Lutheran Church in Germany as a result of the Lutherans electing Margot Käßmann as their leader for the next six years.
Updated The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori met with Moravian leaders and seminarians during a concurrent visit to the Diocese of Bethlehem.
The full details of the new Apostolic Constitution have been released. Most of it is what people have expected, but there are places such as when it describes the role of priest functioning as bishops in all but name that are surprising in how far they go.
“We view with alarm the dangerous consequences of disregard for the survival of God’s creation”
“It is time to acknowledge that the Catholic church hierarchy can no longer pretend that it isn’t the active enemy of gay people and our families,” says Sullivan
Bishop Alan Scarfe points out something not many others have seen in the latest initiative to include Anglican communities into a full communion relationship with the Holy See. There’s not much future in community defined as being opposed to other communities.
Rowan Cantuar and Benedict XVI have plenty to discuss when they meet Nov. 21st. How will it all go down?
There is one killer fact about the pope’s present move. “Traditionalist” Anglicanism is a shotgun marriage between incompatible groups: extreme Anglo-Catholics and extreme evangelicals.
An invitation from the Vatican invites one blogger’s response, to issue a similar invitation from The Episcopal Church.