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September 30 2007 By virtueonline Episcopal Church Fights Declining Ordinations, Clergy Loss, Dwindling Membership

Average Sunday attendance is considerably lower than membership figures. They are more reflective of what is happening at the parish level every week.

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September 29 2007 By virtueonline PITTSBURGH: Participants at Common Cause Announcement of New Anglican Structure

ANGLICAN ESSENTIALS OF CANADA was represented by the Rev. Canon Charles Masters.

ANGLICAN MISSION IN AMERICA was represented by bishops Chuck Murphy, Sandy Green, T.J. Johnston, John Rodgers, and the Rev. John Miller.

ANGLICAN NETWORK IN CANADA was represented by Bishop Donald Harvey (former bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada's Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador).

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September 29 2007 By virtueonline PITTSBURGH: New Ecclesiastical Structure Announced by Common Cause Partners

"This is a significant step towards a new Anglican province that will be recognized by a number of Anglican provinces and primates which embraces Common Cause Partners with a separate ecclesiastical structure called for by the bishops in Kilgali, Rwanda," said Duncan.

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September 26 2007 By virtueonline NEW ORLEANS: Verdict is in, No Change of Direction by HOB for Episcopal Church

The litmus test of any radical departure from the church's pansexual agenda can always be gauged by TEC's official pansexual organization known as Integrity. Its leader, Susan Russell wrote this immediately after the HOB published its statement, "Integrity is gratified that the final response from the House of Bishops declined to succumb to the pressure to go backwards, but rather took some significant steps forward."

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September 26 2007 By virtueonline NEW ORLEANS: Bishops Send Contrary Signals over Sodomy

Bishop Bruno and Bishop Charles Jenkins of Louisiana developed the new working draft with an earlier draft. During a closed-door executive session, the bishops discussed the two documents together for several hours without coming to any common consensus.

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September 26 2007 By virtueonline Bishop Steenson Resigns TEC And Will Go To Rome

"I was...surprised when a substantial majority declared the polity of the Episcopal Church to be primarily that of an autonomous and independent local church relating to the wider Anglican Communion by voluntary association. This is not the Anglicanism in which I was formed, inspired by the Oxford movement and the Catholic Revival in the Church of England."

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September 25 2007 By virtueonline HOB Ready to Serve as 'Episcopal Visitors' Rejected by Orthodox Bishops

Anglican Communion Network moderator and Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan echoed similar sentiments.

Ft. Worth Bishop Jack Iker said, "it sounded like a case of Mother Schori knows best and she will tell us what she has decided, in her good time. Rather condescending! She has not consulted with one bishop who requested APO. Feels to me like a case of 'too little, too late'. Wasn't DEPO a failure for the same reason?"

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September 25 2007 By virtueonline Episcopal Church HOB Draft Statement Reveals No Change of Direction

Reports, leaking out from the secluded HOB over the weekend, indicate that back room deals have replaced blessed "conversation". With word, broken by VirtueOnline, that the Anglican Communion is irreversibly compromised, there was scrambling to rescue what looks to be a lost situation.

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September 23 2007 By virtueonline The Great Betrayal

He didn't. The overpowering collegiality, the bonhomie, the quiet solicitation of "your grace", the murmurings in his ear that to include sodomy among the church's pantheon of sexual behaviors would cast him as a "prophetic" figure embracing the new religion of The Episcopal Church leading inevitably and triumphantly to a new reformation akin to Martin Luther, won the day.

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