From: Mary Ailes, Truro Church, Fairfax, VA JANUARY 9   PLANO EAST CONFERENCE, VIRGINIA     When a diocesan bishop goes into another diocese to celebrate the Eucharist, the bishop cannot just show up and start celebrating.  That would be like Tony Blair dropping into the White House and ordering new drapes for the East Room.  It just not done.  Bishop Peter Lee, Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia, graciously gave his consent for Bishop Bob Duncan, Bishop of the Diocese of Pitt

From: Mary Ailes, Truro Church, Fairfax, VA   January 10     When I got up this morning in the dark, the temperatures outside in the single digits, I asked myself, why are you doing this?  Haven’t I heard it all?  How many of these things have I gone to?  Will I really hear anything new?  Does anyone really have any idea what is going to happen?  Wouldn’t it be better just to stay in the warmth of this bed and let someone else do it? Why don’t I just become a Quaker But I got

By David W. Virtue     CHARLESTON, SC--There is a need for mechanisms of order and discipline in the Anglican Communion if it is to survive, says the president of the Anglican Communion Institute, Dr. Christopher Seitz. Addressing several hundred attendees at a conference here, Seitz, Professor of Divinity at the University of St Andrews, Scotland said, one can actually hear the timbers of our Communion boat creak, and there seems to be little sign that the winds are calming.

BOSTON (AP) Archbishop Sean P. OMalley yesterday urged Catholic lawyers to oppose same-sex marriage, saying the institution of marriage and the family are under assault and lawyers need to help protect them.    The social cost of the breakdown of family life has already been enormous, Archbishop OMalley said at the annual Red Mass, which is dedicated to judges, lawyers and others in the legal system.   It not a question of live and let live, it a question of right and wrong,

By David W. Virtue VIRTUOSITY   CHARLESTON, SC--The rectors of one of the largest parish churches in the Diocese of South Carolina has sent a letter of personal regret to AMIA Bishop Chuck Murphy and to the rector of All Saints Church, Waccamaw for its decision to withdraw from the diocese. The Rev. Marc Boutan, associate rector of St. Philip Church, a flagship parish in the heart of Charleston, said some 15 clergy and laity signed a letter saying, We, some of your fellow cle

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In a resounding display of shared conviction, the parish of All Saints Church in Pawley’s Island, SC, voted tonight to sever ties to the...

Statement of the Bishops of the Anglican Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo on homosexuality and blessings of same-sex unions...