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August 10 2007 By virtueonline Anglican Communion in Danger..More Legal & Ecclesiastical Action in TEC Dioceses

The question this week that begs for an answer is this: Is it just The Episcopal Church that has lost its way or is the Anglican Communion so severely compromised that a more
radical realignment is needed?

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August 03 2007 By virtueonline MONEY Greases the Wheels...New Federation is Born...Gomez rips TEC Use of Funds

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
www.virtueonline.org
August 2, 2007

MONEY.

It's the elixir that greases the wheels of The Episcopal Church (TEC) and allows them a seat at the Anglican Communion table regardless of what they believe. Consider the following:

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July 28 2007 By virtueonline Lambeth Boycott Widens...Williams must Decide or Face Divided Communion...more

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
www.virtueonline.org
July 27, 2007

The numbers grow almost weekly.

Another Lambeth boycott threat has loomed, this time from none other than the mother ship herself. Up to 60 per cent of the Church of England's bishops might boycott Lambeth, according to one of the church's most senior bishops, reports the "London Times."

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July 20 2007 By virtueonline Lawsuits: Four Bishops Ask TEC About Funding...CNY priest wins…more

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
www.virtueonline.org
7/19/2007

FOUR RETIRED EPISCOPAL BISHOPS stepped up to the plate this week and dared to ask Katharine Jefferts Schori, The Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop and her attorney David Booth Beers, where the money is coming from to litigate all the orthodox parishes across the country wanting to leave the Episcopal Church.

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July 13 2007 By virtueonline Can Covenant Save Communion...Protestants Riled over Papal Decree...More

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
www.virtueonline.org
July 12, 2007

It is the calm before the storm. Across the Anglican Communion a huge debate is raging over whether or not a now drafted Covenant can hold the communion together.

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July 06 2007 By virtueonline IS Schism Good or Bad?..TEC's Strategy for Fleeing Parishes...Holmes Inhibited

Two opposing views on whether the consecration of some eleven offshore bishops (to date) by African primates for American congregations is a good or bad thing, is now firmly on the table.

The first view, espoused by Dr. Peter Toon, argues that schism is in the very nature and ethos of American Christianity and is apparently incurable. Anglicans are not exempt from this virus and disease.

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June 29 2007 By virtueonline Alternative Lambeth sought..Canadians in cliffhanger..more consecrations

You must ask in prayer, "Give me faith. Give me the love of Jesus. Give me humility." These things are all gifts. Only God can grant them. Pray. Pray. Pray. ---Gerontissa Makrina (+1995)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
www.virtueonline.org
6/28/2007

It was another tumultuous week in the life of the Anglican Communion.

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June 21 2007 By virtueonline TEC Defiant...Noose Tightens Around Orthodox Necks...San Diego Sues Twice...More

Leaders of the Episcopal Church meeting as the Executive Council this past week in Parsippany, NJ did what they were expected to do - raise the middle finger of defiance at the Anglican Communion, telling the Primates and Bishops of the worldwide body that they would not comply with the demands of Global South leaders to reverse or retract the church's liberal and revisionist positions on homosexuality, nor would they allow alternative supervision for disaffected orthodox Episcopalians.

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June 15 2007 By virtueonline Realignment Roars...New US/Kenyan bishop...TEC Task Force Nixes APO...More

Orthodox African Primates, orthodox Episcopal bishops and priests are coming together under the banner of Common Cause to make it happen.

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June 09 2007 By virtueonline Violators of Lambeth Resolution Should be Nixed...Tolerance, Not...Diocesan News

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
www.virtueonline.org
6/8/2007

There is no point, said a group of African Primates in February 2006, "in meeting and meeting and not resolving the fundamental crisis of Anglican identity. We will definitely not attend any Lambeth Conference to which the violators of the Lambeth Resolution are also invited as participants or observers."

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