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October 16 2005 By virtueonline KENTUCKY: Bolivian bishop to preside in Breakaway church

The church is a conservative congregation composed mainly of members who split from Christ Episcopal Church this summer because of liberal trends in the denomination. Litchfield, Christ Church's retired pastor, is leading the new church and has declared he is no longer part of the Kentucky diocese.

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October 16 2005 By virtueonline FLORIDA: Episcopal priest leaves parish and goes to Rome

On the eve of the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, September 28th, I hand-delivered a letter to the diocesan office in Jacksonville in which I provided a "100-day" advance notice of intent to vacate my interim rectorship at Nativity church in JAX, which period concludes on the Feast of the Epiphany, 2006, and to effect an orderly departure from the Episcopal Church, a departure that would seek to minimize the negative impact of my leaving on the good people at Nativity.

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October 14 2005 By virtueonline A Call to Our Primates: "Engage this crisis steadfastly and decisively"

So long as ECUSA's own 'walking apart' remains officially vague and (within its own councils) not consciously declared to be such, the danger is real that these arrangements will continue to cause mutual recrimination, fragmentation and disunity in the Communion, while the underlying cause of the problem is left without adjudication.

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October 14 2005 By virtueonline ENGLAND: Protest over religious hate Bill

'Basic freedom'

The Reverend Katei Kirby, African and Caribbean Evangelical Alliance chief executive, said: "It affects everyone so deeply.

"This is not just about doctrine. This is not even about theological opposition. This is about our basic freedom to speak and to preach.

"It affects people's freedom to discuss and to critique anything because it might upset or offend somebody else and that is very serious."

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October 14 2005 By virtueonline SAN FRANCISCO: New gay rector for St. John's

Kirkley, 38, gained comparative perspectives on different faith traditions at Indiana University, and came out in the process, asking more sophisticated questions than what his fundamentalist upbringing allowed while attending both Southern Baptist and Catholic churches growing up in Griffith, Indiana.

"I had an intellectual and spiritual hunger, which gave me pause to reconsider my own tradition," said Kirkley. "I came out progay before I came out."

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October 13 2005 By virtueonline NEW YORK: Presiding Bishop thanks Senator John McCain

Speaking on the Senate floor last week in support of his amendment, Senator McCain said, "The intelligence we collect must be reliable and acquired humanely, under clear standards understood by all our fighting men and women. To do differently would not only offend our values as Americans, but undermine our war effort because abuse of prisoners harms - not helps - us in the war on terror."

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October 13 2005 By virtueonline BEAUFORT, SC: Orthodox parish sends 30 parishioners to MS to help Episcopalians

All of God's creatures, except for the devastated human survivors, were gone. "The only sound you could hear was a chain saw now and then in the distance," said Eric Gnau. "Nothing was alive - not a bird, not a bug, not a snake."

A 34-foot storm surge from Category 4 Katrina smashed into this town on Aug. 29. For nearly a mile, buildings were splintered, broken into maybe eight-foot pieces at a maximum and piled north of the railroad tracks that run parallel to the ocean.

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October 13 2005 By virtueonline SYDNEY: Church in 'crisis' on gays. Constitutional change sought

Section six of the constitution says unity depends on the Australian church being satisfied that its English counterpart is complying with biblical teaching.

Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen's view that the Bible forbids same-sex unions is well known, but this motion is the first step towards a split.

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October 13 2005 By virtueonline Reform Ireland Statement on Nigeria and Realignment

With the Church of England drifting inexorably towards official acceptance of homosexual lifestyles, (as evidenced recently by the House of Bishops' Pastoral Letter regarding civil partnerships), the Church of Nigeria has correctly identified that interrelationships between Anglican churches and between Anglican Provinces ought always to be shaped by the Gospel.

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October 12 2005 By virtueonline ENGLAND: Churches near last rites, says Carey

In a lecture in a Buckinghamshire church, Dr Carey expressed his exasperation that his efforts to revive the Church of England in the 1990s had been frustrated by lack of support from the clergy.

He delivered a warning to his successor, Dr Rowan Williams, that his initiatives could meet a similar fate.

However, the former archbishop argued, however, that it was still possible to turn the tide if the Church did not "throw up its hands in despair"

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