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October 19 2005
PITTSBURGH: Diocese, parish settle suit
"Both sides have been working toward a settlement for almost a year now," said Bishop Robert Duncan. "It is a blessing to see that work bear fruit."
Duncan called the lawsuit "expensive and distracting" for those involved, and called on a both sides to "put it behind us."
"With the issues at hand settled, I pray a level of trust has also been regained," Duncan said.
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October 18 2005
IRELAND: Nigeria and the Anglican Communion
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. This is indeed the theological position of the Articles, the BCP and the Ordinal of 1662.
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October 17 2005
NIGERIA: Akinola Blasts Eames over his remarks in US
Let me say again that the recent actions of the Church of Nigeria were not the "preemptive strike" of a single voice but rather the deliberate, prayerful and unanimous action of the more than 800 members of our General Synod. It was, and is, our intention to make clear our commitment to the faith once delivered to the Saints as expressed in historic Anglicanism and its traditional formularies at a time when these understandings are being challenged and distorted.
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October 17 2005
ENGLAND: Church Society blasts Griswold and ARCIC over Mary
This is clear from the report itself when their attempts to defend Roman teaching have to rely constantly on reading meaning into Biblical texts and on what they call 'symbolic and ecclesial reading'. Such teaching about Mary is a late invention.
In writing to the Vatican Church Society is not seeking to open up old wounds but to recognise that the cause of unity will never be served by deceit and misrepresentation.
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October 16 2005
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
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
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
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
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
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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