That is putting it bluntly.
"The Panel is not there to redesign the Anglican Communion or change its doctrine and discipline. The acid test for the Panel will be whether the protection it offers proves adequate for those who are being harassed, oppressed, and forced to leave their jobs and their churches. Only time will tell whether the Panel is able to pass this test."
Read moreThe Mexican bishop, whose own province, before he left it, was one of the most corrupt in modern ecclesiastical history with millions of ECUSA dollars disappearing with a former archbishop and bishop, now accuses unnamed persons of waging a "guerrilla warfare, fostered and nurtured by unhappy Episcopalians intent on sabotaging General Convention and destroying the polity of ECUSA."
Read moreThe list of 20 or so bishops, half orthodox and half revisionist has not been revealed and probably won't be till the last moment, but clearly some of the Network bishops will be on board as well as some centrists like Bishops Wimberly of Texas and Howard of Florida along with a slew of hard core revisionists to complete the picture.
The fiction perpetuated by liberals, that heresy is worse than schism, has fallen on hard times. It is now clearly a precursor to it.
Read moreIn this book "Understanding the Windsor Report" two theologians, one conservative; the other liberal, range across the issues the Report raises. The collaborative effort of the two men: The Rev. Dr. Paul F. M. Zahl, Dean and President of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry and the Rev. Ian T. Douglas Professor of World Mission and Global Christianity at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass face off over the issues the book raises.
Read moreHe was speaking on the occasion of the installation of the new Dean of Washington National Cathedral the Rev. Samuel Lloyd.
"How one comes into a relationship with God has taken on a meaning that it did not have in my younger years."
Read moreLawyers are part of the fabric of Episcopal Church life these days. Orthodox priests under siege by revisionist bishops have learned not to talk to their bishop, when summoned, without an attorney in tow. When you are dealing with purple bishops like Bennison or Smith or Bruno, take an attorney with you or face a bishop who may possibly lie under oath.
Read moreVirtueOnline called several orthodox priests in the diocese and this report is what follows.
Read more"A convert comes to learn," Newman wrote, "and not to pick and choose." It is now time for me to withdraw from the lists of controversy, enter into a spiritual posture of learning and docility, and submit my mind, heart, and soul to the teaching of our Lord through the Magisterium of his Church. It is time for me to abandon the private judgment of my Anglicanism and be reformed by the Catholic Faith in all of its fullness.
Read moreThere was a pause and he sat down. At that point the Primate from Pakistan the Rt. Rev. Dr. Alexander John Malik got to his feet and said, "Archbishop Hutchison I hope you don't mind that when we have the next Primate's meeting that I bring along my four wives. You see in my country the government has passed a law saying it is legal to have four wives. I take it you would have no objection. Clearly it is a justice issue."
Read more"Berktold knows he's going to have to address the issue of Robinson, and he knows he has to do it carefully. He has his own opinions, and believes that the emergence of someone like Robinson was inevitable, that his promotion was a natural part of the church's evolution. He's not sure it's a good thing, but he likes the fact that Robinson has moved the discussion on gay rights and gay clergy from the theoretical to the tangible.
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