What on earth are CAPA bishops doing letting these people through the communications door when they raised a storm of protest about The Episcopal Church funding the CAPA summit in August 2010, which led to the money being sent back. See story here: http://tinyurl.com/36zk3kg
Read morePattison wants to see Pelagius's "restitution as a viable theological voice within our tradition might encourage a deeper understanding of sin, grace, free will, and the goodness of God's creation, and that the history of Pelagius represents to some the struggle for theological exploration that is our birthright as Anglicans.
"The church needs to reclaim his voice in our tradition," concluded Pattison.
Read moreThe irony should not be missed. An Archbishop says to an audience in Africa "You know very well, dear brothers and sisters, what it means to have doors locked in your faces by those who claim the name of Christians and Anglicans" while he stood to the side as thousands of orthodox Anglicans in North America had the same experience. He tells his audience in Harare that "Day by day, you have to face injustice and the arrogance of 'false brethren' as St Paul would call them", but would St.
Read moreIngham said he had two conversations with Archbishop Rowan who, he said, was well aware of the diocese's situation regarding recent court decisions.
Read moreBishop Mathes has lost fully one quarter (nine) of his parishes (Episcopalians) to other Anglican jurisdictions because of the Episcopal Church's apostasies.
On the issue of power.
No Presiding Bishop has wielded more power in the history of The Episcopal Church than Katharine Jefferts Schori. She has deposed more bishops than any other Presiding bishop in American ecclesiastical history.
Read moreThe nominating process for the 4th Bishop of Western Louisiana will open on October 17 and close on November 7.
Read moreThe Rt. Rev. Mark Lawrence, Bishop of South Carolina responds, "We face a multitude of false teachings which I have called the false Gospel of Indiscriminate Inclusivity."
Bishop John W. Howe answers, "The problem with your question, Susan, is that the church that continues to draw the circle ever wider grows ever smaller."
QED
Read moreInterim rector Fr. John Keefer said the special meeting had been called to establish a new vestry, but he understood there were two opinions as to the validity of the meeting, one held by senior warden David Rawson and the other held by Bishop Rodney Michel.
He said that commonwealth laws for non-profit corporations in the state of Pennsylvania allow for such a meeting, therefore a special meeting to establish a new vestry was in order.
Read moreVOL: First of all when you talk about "good news" in lower case rather than upper case as in Good News, you could be talking about anything. The Good News is about Jesus, his life, death and resurrection, the promise of new life in Christ, none of which Mrs. Jefferts Schori believes in as she eschews personal faith in Christ nor does she believe in converting Muslims as they have the same God, according to her.
Read moreThe document also relies on a variety of other articles by or about the bishop, including one reference to a meeting between the Archbishop of Canterbury and seven bishops of the Episcopal Church who belong to Communion Partners. The diocese also released a one-page letter [PDF] by Josephine H. Hicks, a church attorney for the disciplinary board, alleging the ordination of his son, Chadwick E. Lawrence, to the priesthood was a violation of the canons of the Episcopal Church.
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