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June 03 2011 By virtueonline VICTORIA, BC: The Congress of Traditional Anglicans: A Basis for Full Communion

2. The sufficiency of the three Creeds as the symbols of the Catholic religion;

3. The authority of the Dogmatic Definitions of the undisputed Ecumenical Councils of the undivided Church as the true expression of the orthodox Christian faith;

4. The necessity of the two sacraments of the Gospel: Holy Baptism and the Holy Eucharist;

5. The truth of the Doctrines of the Eucharistic Sacrifice and the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist;

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June 02 2011 By virtueonline VICTORIA, BC: Anglo-Catholic Leader Rejects Papal Ordinariate Offer

"God's people are truly unified when they can affirm, as Jesus did, that God the Father and Jesus are one. That is all He asked. No less a theologian than Richard Hooker wrote that God's church is one when all affirm that God the Father and God the Son are indeed one. That is unity. That is unity with an Anglican emphasis. That is unity with a Christian emphasis.

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June 02 2011 By virtueonline VICTORIA, BC: Congress of Traditional Anglicans Gather to Ponder their Future

The congress is being hosted by St Mark's Church and is being held June 1 - 4 at the historic St Anne's Chapel in Victoria. Traditional Anglicans from a wide spectrum of jurisdictions will take part in study groups and discussions.

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May 31 2011 By virtueonline The Archbishop of Canterbury's Anger and Angst

According to a leaked memo from the now deceased Dean of Southwark, Colin Slee, a first class row broke open. A verbal donnybrook ensued between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu on one side, and the crown nomination committee on the other. It was downright ugly and nasty, according to the memo leaked to the Guardian newspaper.

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May 27 2011 By virtueonline JOPLIN, MO: Reformed Episcopal Church Wiped Out in Tornado Alley

"It is utter devastation. The little church was picked up and smashed into St. James Methodist Church next door, destroying both. None of our people were hurt. No one was in the church building."

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May 25 2011 By virtueonline Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy on Communion without Baptism

The bishop wrote, "Others, the sicker kind, had a sick need to make up with this offensive person and actually forced him to receive Holy Communion, one dragging him on either side, managing to violate his integrity and the integrity of his religion and ours. The perpetrators were women who did not care that he was clearly not in love and charity with his neighbor and who see the sacrament as nothing more than 'hospitality'."

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May 24 2011 By virtueonline Orthodox Global South Anglicans Flex Muscles...

This move to plant a Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) office on UK soil can only be viewed with alarm by Lambeth Palace. It is the first major encroachment on the turf of the Mother Church by orthodox Anglicans from the Global South and must be taken with tremendous seriousness. This is happening while a number of Church of England Anglo-Catholic bishops, clergy, and laity are fleeing to Rome under the offer of an ordinariate by Pope Benedict XVI.

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May 19 2011 By virtueonline Jefferts Schori Receives Doctor of Divinity Degree from Huron University College

She called journeying an ancient image for honing leaders. "Leadership asks us to be agents of change and to take others with us," she remarked. "The voyage is rarely calm these days. These are times for courageous and intrepid leaders, for those who will try seemingly impossible things, and, like Jesus, wrestle with internal demons and more worldly dragons."

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May 17 2011 By virtueonline Tic TAC Toe: The Future of the TAC Anglo-Catholic Vagante

In case your mind may have wandered on to higher more noble things like the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church obtaining a DD from the University of Huron where she famously proclaimed, "The faithful are all on that kind of journey into the unknown. We're like the explorers who went looking for the places on old maps beyond the known world labeled, 'There be dragons.'" If so, Hepworth's rant might look only half crazy.

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May 14 2011 By virtueonline Osama Bin Laden's Death Frustrates, Angers Anglican & Episcopal Leaders

That is not how Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams views it. During a question and answer on the death of Bin Laden he stated, "I think that the killing of an unarmed man is always going to leave a very uncomfortable feeling because it doesn't look as if justice is seen to be done, in those circumstances.

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