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May 18 2005
SEATTLE: Divided We Stand
This time, Berktold wasn't even in the country when brooding trouble turned to roiling tempest. It was August 2003, and he was on vacation when he heard that Episcopal bishops at the church's national convention had approved the Rev. Gene Robinson's appointment to the powerful position of bishop of New Hampshire.
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May 17 2005
SEATTLE: Religious Leaders Agree on Role of Mary
Historically, the Anglican Communion has opposed the papal teachings because there is no direct account of them in the Bible.
Immaculate Conception refers to the mandatory Catholic dogma, pronounced in 1854, that Mary was born free of "original sin." The Assumption refers to the belief required since 1950 that Mary was directly received, body and soul, into heaven at the end of her life. Anglicans have neither teaching.
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May 16 2005
MARYLAND: Fight for the faith: Two Anglican parishes form opposing camps
A few miles north, 160-year-old St. Philip's Episcopal Church on Main Street conducts its worship services with a contemporary flair.
A St. Philip's skit April 24 to celebrate Earth Day stars parishioner Betsy Welsh as a sometimes uncertain God who totes a golf bag, cracks jokes and hypnotizes Adam.
At this service, the priest, lay communion assistant and cross-bearer are all female.
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May 16 2005
VANCOUVER: Compromise offered on same-sex unions
"We must now put the same effort into rebuilding broken relationships that we put into ending discrimination against some people in our church," Bishop Michael Ingham told the diocese's synod in North Vancouver.
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May 15 2005
BEDFORD, TX: Anglican Communion Network Council Communiqué
2. The primates of the Anglican Communion at their meeting in
Newry called “as a matter of urgency” for a panel of reference
(paragraph 15), and yet as of this date, the panel has not been
organized. We implore the Archbishop of Canterbury to organize this
panel immediately to help ensure the protection of beleaguered parishes and clergy of the Episcopal Church.
May 15 2005
U.S. Anglicans eyeing divestment criticize Israel
She was part of a delegation that also included members of the church's Social Responsibility in Investments committee and Phoebe Griswold, wife of Frank Griswold, presiding bishop of the 2.3 million-member church.
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May 15 2005
MISSOURI: Two Episcopal bishops speak out against execution
Brown is on Missouri's death row for two separate acts of murder. He was convicted in 1988 of the October 1986 strangulation death of a nine-year-old girl in his home in St. Louis.
While imprisoned on that charge, he was convicted in 1991 of the March 1985 strangulation and stabbing death of a 19-year-old St. Louis woman.
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May 14 2005
VANCOUVER, BC: Same-Sex Blessings Will Continue, says Ingham
"No bishop was in any doubt that I did not commit myself to a moratorium on same-sex blessings," Ingham said.
A same-sex blessings moratorium was part of a unity plea from a February meeting of 35 top world Anglican leaders.
The same request was made of the Episcopal Church in the United States, where there's been similar confusion.
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May 12 2005
VENABLES TO GRISWOLD: "You fiddle while Rome burns"
You speak with clarity about your grief over the pain your actions have caused and yet you proceed with your relentless agenda. Do you not see that there is an enormous contradiction here?
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May 11 2005
Archbishop Peter Carnley to lead Communion's Panel Of Reference
Rowan Douglas by Divine Providence Archbishop of Canterbury Primate and Metropolitan to all to whom these presents shall come Greeting
Whereas it has been represented to the Primates of the Anglican Communion meeting in February 2005 that certain parishes have been unwilling to accept the direct oversight of their diocesan bishops and that certain dioceses are in dispute with their provincial authorities
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