http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/episcopal/ en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:01:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417015/posts I have been looking for God my whole life. I first recognized Him in the black foster parents I worked with who manifested Christ-consciousness. I then found him four years ago, when my parents died three weeks apart and I was carried by a force stronger than myself. And more recently, as I’ve gone from left to right, I have discovered him in the many conservatives guiding me, such as AT readers. American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417015/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:01:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412627/posts A priest in Britain is under fire Monday for advising his congregation to shoplift in tough economic times, the Daily Mail reports. Father Tim Jones, a 41-year-old clergyman at St. Lawrence Church in York, England, said that shoplifting — rather than prostitution or burglary — is sometimes the best option for poor people struggling to make ends meet, according to the Web site. "My advice as a Christian priest is to shoplift," Jones reportedly told churchgoers during his Sunday sermon. "I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good thing, or because I think it... Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412627/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:41:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2407093/posts (ENS, Rome) The Emperor of Rome, Gaius Caligula, announced yesterday that he had become a convert to Christianity, and that the Roman Empire would now become the "Episcopalian Empire." In celebration of this momentous event, he said that he would make his horse, Incitatus, a bishop in the Episcopal Church. "I have learned that the Episcopal Church is a very inclusive church," he said in an interview with Empirical News. "Their Presiding Bishop has said that she will take orders to consecrate any bishop elected in accordance with the rules. Incitatus has been baptized, and so now under the Church's... Anglican Curmudgeon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2407093/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:30:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2406633/posts The election of a second openly-homosexual bishop in the Episcopal Church hardly came as a surprise. Given the actions of the church in its General Convention this past summer, the question was clearly not if there would be more openly-gay bishops, but when. The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles answered that question on Saturday, electing the Reverend Mary D. Glasspool of Baltimore as an assistant bishop. She is expected to be consecrated as bishop on May 15 in Los Angeles.Ms. Glasspool was elected on the seventh ballot, winning 153 clergy votes and 203 lay votes. Her election followed the election... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2406633/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:15:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406548/posts It does not matter so much what God thinks of sodomy [I have it on good report, that He does not think well of it, despite that modern liberal churches and synagogues have all but sanctified it], but how can the American people accept this new found glory in all things homosexual? Will they allow the Safe School Czar Jennings and his cohorts [members of of GLISN and NAMBLA] to thrust their USDA Approved buggery on public school children? Now that the Jenning' FistGate has been outed, proving that the Gay Lobby has, indeed, very diabolical plans to ramrod (forgive... JoeClarke.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406548/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:57:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2406539/posts A Minnesota bishop with Deep South roots was elected Saturday the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina. The Rev. W. Andrew Waldo, pastor of Trinity Episcopal Church in Excelsior, Minn., emerged as the winner on the third ballot, defeating five other candidates. Among the six vying for the post were three South Carolinians, including the dean of Columbia's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, the Very Rev. Philip C. Linder. "I'm so happy to be returning to the South, and coming to South Carolina," Waldo said by telephone from his Shorewood, Minn., home. He said his first task will... Myrtle Beach Sun News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2406539/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:34:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2402008/posts Reporting from Los Angeles and Riverside - The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles on Saturday elected the first openly gay bishop since the national church lifted a ban that kept gays out of its highest ordained ministry, a move that deepened divisions between liberals and conservatives in the faith. Clergy and lay leaders, meeting in Riverside for their annual convention, chose the Rev. Canon Mary D. Glasspool, 55, who has been in a committed relationship with another woman since 1988, from a field of six candidates. She is a canon, or senior assistant, to the Diocese of Maryland bishops. Glasspool's... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2402008/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:55:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2401205/posts BREAKING: Diocese of Los Angeles Elects Non-Celibate Lesbian As Suffragan Bishop Stand Firm http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2401205/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 22:56:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2401160/posts RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected the first female bishop in its 114-year history Friday but ended voting for the day with one of two openly gay candidates still vying for the second bishop's position.Rev. Diane M. Jardine Bruce, rector of St. Clement's-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church in San Clemente, was elected Friday at the diocese's annual convention to replace one of two retiring assistant bishops.Bruce, who was elected in the convention's third ballot, is a former bank executive who has spent the past 12 years working as a priest in Orange County.Voting for the second spot did... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2401160/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 21:39:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2400842/posts The US Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has elected the first female bishop in its 114-year history but ended voting for the day with one of two openly gay candidates still vying for the second bishop's position. Reverend Diane M. Jardine Bruce, rector of St Clement's-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church in San Clemente, was elected at the diocese's annual convention to replace one of two retiring assistant bishops. Rev Bruce, who was elected in the convention's third ballot, is a former bank executive who has spent the past 12 years working as a priest in Orange County. Voting for the second spot... UK Press Association http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2400842/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:13:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2397956/posts As of Nov. 29, clergy of the diocese may solemnize marriages for all eligible couples, Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE has announced.  The decision comes after a long discernment process leading up to and continuing after the action of General Convention this past July allowing that “bishops, particularly in dioceses within civil jurisdictions where same-gender marriage is legal, may provide generous pastoral response to meet the needs of members of this church.” The full text of Bishop Shaw’s statement follows. Advent I, November 29, 2009 Christian marriage is a sacramental rite that has evolved in the church, along with confirmation,... Episcopal DIocese of Massachusetts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2397956/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 22:42:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2396238/posts The false religion is all around us. Those churches that have turned against the Word of God, Christ as God, and the proclamation of personal salvation through His forgiving mercy, aid in damning America. Those churches clustered into denominations add to the demonic force. faithfreedom.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2396238/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:34:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2387682/posts Former Episcopalians who have found a traditional refuge in Catholicism, where the priesthood remains closed to women and openly gay clergy, are applauding the Vatican’s plan to help additional dissatisfied conservatives convert. But while the welcome extends to married priests — a narrow loophole in the Catholic Church’s celibacy requirement — most of those who have already converted say they want to remain rare exceptions. “We trust the church’s wisdom regarding the discipline of celibacy,” said the Rev. D. Paul Sullins, who left the Episcopal Church 10 years ago with his wife and recently surveyed his colleagues on this issue.... Religion News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2387682/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:50:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2387444/posts Hundreds of worshippers packed into Sacramento’s Trinity Cathedral on Sunday morning to hear the nation’s leader of the Episcopal Church talk about the need to embrace change. “Changing isn’t the problem,” said Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in her message. “Our fear and anxiety about it is.” Jefferts Schori spoke to a supportive and welcoming crowd. After all, she interned at the midtown cathedral 16 years ago. Sunday she returned to deliver a message of hope and change for the Episcopal Church that has been marked by controversy in recent years. Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church for three... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2387444/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:46:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2381357/posts IT was one of those quiet summer Sunday mornings when I knew the priest in a distant parish would be away and he would have a stand in for the holiday. I sneaked in to this famous citadel of Pre-Raphaelite beauty and, like most Anglicans, sat as far from the front as possible. The choir sang the opening of the Eucharist, the Gospel was read – Jesus walked on the water and the priest started to preach. Then followed a 20-minute thesis on why the Bible had it wrong. Jesus couldn't possibly walk on water – that would defy nature... Yorkshire Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2381357/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 06:02:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2376957/posts At Saint Mary the Virgin Catholic Church, the 75-year-old priest is married, members sing from an Episcopalian hymnal and parishioners kneel at the altar to receive Communion. Years ago, the Texas parish and a handful of other conservative Episcopal churches in the U.S. decided to become Roman Catholic. Though they were confirmed by the Vatican, they were still allowed to practice some of their Anglican traditions, including having married priests. Now, these churches may have helped pave the way for Anglicans worldwide, or Episcopalians as they are known in the U.S., to become Catholic under a new Vatican plan created... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2376957/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 23:50:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2374648/posts In the wake of Vatican plans to make it easier for Episcopalians to become Catholic, the Episcopal bishop of Maryland would like to make one point clear: The door swings both ways. Lost in talk of the splintering of the Anglican Communion, Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton says, is the appeal that the 45,000-member Episcopal Diocese of Maryland has held for former Roman Catholics and others looking for a big-tent church. While attention focused on the conversion en masse last month of a Catonsville-based order of Episcopal nuns to the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland has received... Baltimore Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2374648/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:31:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2372855/posts [UPDATE: Lambeth Palace has denied reports that there is to be an emergency meeting of Church of England bishops to discuss the Pope's offer tomorrow.] Here’s what I think Dr Rowan Williams is most worried about as the reality of the Pope’s offer sinks in: the prospect of the Bishop of Chichester and many of his clergy signing up to the new Ordinariate. Bishop John Hind put out a statement today which denies that he is about to become a Roman Catholic. Read between the lines, though. It doesn’t mean that he won’t join the new Papal structure in the... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2372855/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:00:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2372254/posts Philadelphia, Pa., Oct 27, 2009 / 04:49 am (CNA).- A Pennsylvania Episcopal church which joyously greeted the announcement of a provision to assist Anglicans who wish to become Catholic could be among the first to take advantage of the church structure put forward by Pope Benedict XVI.The Church of the Good Shepherd, an Episcopalian parish in the Philadelphia Maine Line suburbs, is an “Anglo-Catholic” parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. According to the Rosemont Journal, its liturgy is celebrated in the “high church” style reminiscent of traditional Catholic churches: with incense, elaborate vestments, and a choir that may sing... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2372254/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:07:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2367027/posts (Oct. 20) -- The number of married Catholic priests could grow sharply as the result of the Vatican's epochal decision to welcome thousands of disaffected Anglicans and Episcopalians into the Catholic Church. At press conferences in Rome and London on Tuesday, Vatican officials announced that the Church would set up a special canonical structure that will ease the conversion of members of the Anglican Communion without them having to give up what the Vatican called "the distinctive Anglican spiritual and liturgical patrimony." That means not only a body of prayers and hymns, but also a tradition of married priests and... AOL News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2367027/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:49:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2360919/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZgJbycT-zg St. Michael's Anglican http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2360919/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:48:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348145/posts Wolf and Mellett in their Talk origins paper, The Role of ‘Nebraska man’ in the creation-evolution debate,[1] claim Nebraska man was a careless mistake by an honest scientist. However, the evidence suggests that Osborn deliberately overstated the find because the theory of evolution was centre stage in a struggle for control of education policy in America... Journal of Creation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348145/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:04:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2343844/posts Feeling Profoundly Secular France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy recently announced to the world that Pope Benedict XVI has forcibly driven her away from the Catholic Church. The Italian-born former supermodel and third wife of Nicolas Sarkozy accused the Pope of "damaging" countries in Africa with his stance on condom use, apparently a reference to the Pope's remark during his March trip that the AIDS pandemic "can't be resolved with the distribution of condoms; on the contrary, there is the risk of increasing the problem." Bruni-Sarkozy told the women's magazine Femme Actuelle, "I was born Catholic, I was baptized, but in... New Oxford Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2343844/posts#comment Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:44:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2343121/posts LONGMONT — One of the founders of the Anglican Mission in the Americas is in Colorado this week to encourage people to turn to Christ. Rwandan Archbishop Emman-uel Kolini, who is staying with a Longmont family this week, will deliver a sermon Sunday morning in Broomfield. The service is open to the public. “He’s seen as our spiritual father in terms of the formation of this church,” said the Rev. Gerry Schnackenberg, senior pastor of Epiphany Anglican Fellowship, which has worship sites in Longmont, Broomfield, Lakewood and north Boulder. “He really had the vision and courage to go against the... Longmont Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2343121/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:50:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2335190/posts Ten religious sisters and a priest who were formerly part of an Episcopal religious community were received into full communion with the Catholic Church at a Mass in Maryland on Thursday. One sister said God will use them to bring unity to the Church. The women were members of the Society of All Saints’ Sisters of the Poor. The former Episcopal priest, Fr. Warren Tanghe, was their chaplain. “We know our beliefs and where we are,” the sisters’ superior, Mother Christina Christie, told the Baltimore Sun. “We were drifting farther apart from the more liberal road the Episcopal Church is... EWTN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2335190/posts#comment Wed, 9 Sep 2009 04:54:48 GMT