Tag: Presiding Bishop

Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori talks with Bill Moyers about science, the environment, and the rift in her Church over the ordination of gay

Thursday morning, June 7, the Presiding Bishop, the Most Reverend Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, will testify before the United States Senate’s Environment and Public Works

The blog “BabyBlueOnline” has a long report on the meeting that place on May 25th between the clergy of the Diocese of Virginia and Bishop Schori. The Presiding Bishop was in town for the consecration of the new bishop coadjutor of Virginia that happened on Sat May 26th. It’s a wide ranging conversation between the Presiding Bishop and the clergy, with a number of sharp questions directed toward her.

“The reality is that we have changed our scriptural understandings about all sorts of things, including sexual ethics,” Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told the Austin American-Statesman. “We teach something different about contraception than we did 50 years ago. We permit remarriage after divorce … Homosexuality is the most recent in a long series of challenges.

Tell the story, turn chaos to Shalom, Presiding Bishop tells Communicators By Pat McCaughan April 25, 2007 [Episcopal News Service, Virginia Beach] Presiding Bishop Katharine

The Boston Globe reports: Saying “I don’t believe that there is any will in this church to move backward,” the top official of the Episcopal