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December 14 2004
Canada Supreme Court Gives Its Blessing to Homosexual 'Marriage'- Responses
The judges significantly declined to answer the fourth question on whether the current laws upholding traditional marriage were unconstitutional.
(See the exact wording of the reference questions and the proposed legislation here:
http://www.canada.justice.gc.ca/en/news/fs/2004/doc_31110.html )
December 14 2004
APA And FIF-NA: A Done Deal
The new relationship adds another dimension to the widening, trans-jurisdictional network of faithful Anglicans. Earlier this year, FIF-NA became a non-geographical convocation of the conservative Anglican Communion Network within ECUSA, and several groups in and outside of ECUSA, including the APA, joined in a cooperative alliance with the Network.
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December 13 2004
LONDON: Britain can’t be called Christian, says archbishop
Asked by Sir David Frost whether he believed Britain was Christian, he replied: “I think I really want to question that. Large numbers of people describe themselves as believing in God. Large numbers still would say that they are Christian. How they then express that Christianity has changed enormously.”
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December 12 2004
VANCOUVER: Dissenting parishes invited to "come back to the table"
The rectors and majorities in each of their congregations have differed from the rest of the diocese since June, 2002, when their clergy and delegates to the Diocesan Synod (Annual General Meeting) walked out and from that point have refused to support the diocese financially.
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December 12 2004
LONDON: Sorry, says atheist-in-chief, I do believe in God after all. INTERVIEW
But he is unlikely to proclaim his faith from a pulpit. He is still not a Christian and dismisses the conventional forms of divinity as “the monstrous oriental despots of the religions of Christianity and Islam”. He also stands by his rejection of an afterlife.
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December 12 2004
CALIFORNIA: Episcopal lawsuits to be assigned to single judge
"I can tell you, historically, they come back to the same judge,"
Sohlgren said.
Attorneys for the diocese declined comment outside the courtroom.
Velasquez set a status conference for Jan. 14, and will set hearings
for dismissal motions by the church attorneys if he keeps the case,
Sohlgren said.
December 11 2004
LONDON: Church faces implosion and life underground, says senior adviser
Her paper, leaked to The Times, was delivered as a parting shot to the meeting at Lambeth Palace on Tuesday of the Archbishops’ Council, of which she has been one of 19 members.
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December 11 2004
CEN: South African Anglican leader opposes gay marriage
Equal Rights campaigners, however, welcomed the ruling, pushing for further government steps towards legislating gay unions.
??our case will now challenge the government to recognise, regulate and protect marriages between two people of the same sex in the same way that it does for heterosexual couples,? Paul Tilly of the Equality Project told a Sunday newspaper at the weekend.
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December 11 2004
IRELAND: Evangelical Anglicans submit views on sexuality to bishops
Since the gospel is for ALL sinners, we hold that it is actually discriminatory to preach that same-sex activity should be accepted and not repented of, as it excludes a group of sinners from the hope of forgiveness and transformation offered to all through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
* Can the bishops agree that active, unrepentant, deliberate homosexual acts exclude people from the Kingdom of God?
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December 09 2004
CEN: Eames says ECUSA 'Never Likely to Face Discipline'
In an interview with The Church of England Newspaper, Archbishop Eames, the Chair of the Lambeth Commission, urged the warring factions to avoid recriminations and look to the future.
Dr Eames, the Archbishop of Armagh, said: “I would welcome decisions [at February’s Primates’ meeting] more if they’re directed to how we deal with the nature of Communion rather than reiterating ‘they did something wrong’ or ‘they didn’t express regret’.
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