St. Andrews Church is a member of the Anglican Communion Network which seeks to be faithful to the traditional teachings of the Church.
Said Judge Carni, "Any attempt to sell this real estate must be approved by a Superior Court judge. You have agreed that no property will be sold unless the application is made to justice James Murphy. This, I think, gets most parties where they want to go," he concluded.
Read moreThis has been his love, preoccupation and deep concern, after spending 25 years as a parish priest. With all those years under his belt he could have retired and gone gently onto that soft golf course.
Then God woke him up one day to a new concern - millions of men, women and children who had never heard the Good News of God's saving love found in Jesus Christ.
This so energized him, that he formed Anglican Frontier Missions, (AFM) in 1993. He never looked back.
Read moreHe writes: "Not many people of moderate persuasion have much sway in the church any more. I was reminded why recently when the Episcopal Church did two important things: It elected a woman bishop to head the denomination, and it backtracked on appointing gay bishops. The first move seems Christian.
Read more"I have no idea of the canons they could use, but we have seen a propensity of some of our more aggressive bishops to read the canons in very inventive and imaginative ways," said Wicks Stephens, Chancellor of the Anglican Communion Network. "We can only wait to see," he told VirtueOnline.
Retired Eau Claire bishop William Wantland, a canon lawyer and Anglo-Catholic bishop told VOL, "I am aware of no canon that could be legitimately used against him."
Read moreSo this is not an East-West, North-South, black-white thing at all. It is not about cultural differences, racial differences, educational differences (combined African bishops have more earned doctorates than the British and American bishops put together), nor is it a matter of linguistic niceties.
Read more"I understand from Lambeth Palace that talks between the Archbishop of Canterbury and ECUSA leaders are ongoing and delicate. It is for these reasons, and in order to support the office and ministry of the Archbishop of Canterbury, that I have made my decisions."
Read moreThe first type of "stuck" pig is when a pig loses its seal. Episcopal translation: The Episcopal pig lost its "seal" - godly mandate - a long time ago, and while it has increased its pigging volume over the past 40 years, it has not been enough to propel it anywhere but to the gadarene edge of the cliff.
Read moreSee it at: http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/rel2.html#rep
(you have to scroll down the page in order to find the poster on Crew's site).
The poster links to a website (http://www.fatherjones.com) created by someone called Fr. Greg Jones (it is unknown who actually created the poster).
Read moreOn hearing the news that he had won the top spot to be the next Bishop of California, Bishop Mark Andrus cried with a loud voice: "My commitment to Jesus Christ's own mission of inclusion is resolute." He was speaking for tens of thousands of Episcopalians who have bought into this simplistic, faith undermining, notion.
Read moreA spokesman for the diocese, Canon Neal Michell, told VirtueOnline that Bishop Stanton's request differs from the other six dioceses that have sought "alternative primatial oversight" in that he is asking for direct oversight from Dr. Williams and not to "pick a primate".
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