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June 16 2006
CLAYTON, CA: Congregation split over priest's abuse, church's response
Others are upset by Bennison's handling of his misdeeds and by church authorities' decadeslong acceptance of him. In an echo of the clergy sex abuse scandals that have roiled the Catholic Church for more than a decade, the incident triggered one parishioner finally to reveal her experience of sexual abuse by a priest 40 years ago.
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June 16 2006
LARRY KING LIVE: Gays in the Church - Robinson, Mohler, Anderson, Rome Face-Off
We're going to spend most of the time in the first segment with Reverend, with Bishop Robinson and Canon Anderson. Bishop Robinson, why do you want to be an official in a church that doesn't want you?
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June 16 2006
SAN DIEGO: Episcopal Bishop and others struggle against fractures in the church
Like Lincoln, Mathes finds himself in the midst of a civil war. So does the rest of the U.S. Episcopal Church, fractured in a debate over homosexuality. Its Gettysburg, if you will, came three years ago with ordination of the church's first openly gay bishop - V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.
Sex and the Episcopal Church
Bishop V. Gene Robinson
August 2003
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June 16 2006
LAKE MALAWI: High Court reinstates Bishop Mwenda
Justice Ivy Kamanga, who in February granted an injunction to a group of Anglicans restraining Mwenda from exercising his duties, revoked the injunction on Monday, advising both parties to resolve the issue at church level. "I urge the applicants and respondents to resolve their differences within their entity," said Kamanga.
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June 15 2006
CHARLESTON, SC: St. Andrew's Mount Pleasant is Leading a New Worship Style
There's some gray hair and slacks among the worshippers, but also lots of low-riders and spaghetti straps. The music slows, turning inward. A woman kneels in prayer, crying by herself. A teenager dances in back, her eyes gently closed. A teenage boy leans over the chair in front of him. Arms everywhere raise heavenward.
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June 15 2006
LEXINGTON, KY: Episcopal priest facing discipline says he'll quit
"Your behavior, now and in the past, exposes the church, its ministry and those in our care to danger," Sauls wrote in an Oct. 8, 2004, letter to Hodges.
The diocese released the letter and a copy of the charges Hodges faces after the priest told the Herald-Leader he was leaving the church largely because of doctrinal differences.
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June 14 2006
SYDNEY: Stand firm against gay crisis, Bishop tells Australia
Bishop Benn, president of the Church of England Evangelical Council, its most representative evangelical body, provided Bible studies from Philippians at the national conference of the Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion (EFAC) on the weekend.
He is known to many in Sydney after leading the Bible studies sessions at the Archbishop's election Synod in 2001.
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June 13 2006
JACKSONVILLE: Episcopal followers: It's time to repent
"This is big in the life of our church," Eldredge said. "We're specifically praying for repentance ... and that God's will be done."
What Eldredge didn't say Sunday -- because he had already preached about it in May -- was that the American denomination is at odds with theological conservatives in its own ranks and with most Anglicans around the world over the issue of homosexuality and the centrality of Scripture in Christian and church life.
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June 13 2006
LORD CAREY ISSUES STATEMENT CONCERNING REMARKS IN THE TELEGRAPH
There are no grounds for taking my 'reflection' as an attack on the Archbishop of Canterbury. In fact the misleading nature of the Sunday Telegraph report says more about contemporary news values than it does about either myself or Dr Rowan Williams. The speech was supportive of him and his leadership in this current crisis and the Windsor Report.
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June 13 2006
CALIFORNIA: Episcopal Priest agrees to resign over 1970s abuse
Bennison is leaving the priesthood under threat of being deposed over the sexual abuse of a teenage girl in the 1970s.
This was how weeks of turmoil at Saint John's came to a close, as some parish members hugged in the aisles before the 9 a.m. service.
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