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News Updates

June 2005

• Bishop Griswold: Seattle Document will be Key Reconciling Statement

  Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold predicted that the Seattle Document: Mary, Grace and Hope in Christ, the agreed statement of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC), will prove to be a reconciling ecumenical statement of importance to Anglicans, Roman Catholics, the Orthodox and protestants alike.

  Posted on June 30, 2005

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• ACC Calls for End to Land Confiscation in Zimbabwe

  In the final act of its meeting in Nottingham, England, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) endorsed a resolution criticizing President Robert Mugabe and the government-imposed chaos afflicting Zimbabwe.

  Posted on June 29, 2005

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• A Need for Comfort

  Making the Church Welcoming to Persons with Alzheimer’s. (By David L. James)

  Posted on June 29, 2005

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• Bishop Sterling Dies at Age 78

  The Rt. Rev. William E. Sterling, Bishop Suffragan of Texas, died June 28 at his home in Houston of cancer following a long illness. He was 78.

  Posted on June 29, 2005

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• The Meaning of Sacrifice

  hen we participate in the Eucharist, we become again and again part of the glorious and victorious sacrifice of Christ our God (By M. Fred Himmerich)

  Posted on June 29, 2005

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• Questionable Timing

  Why hold General Convention's main Eucharist and ingathering of the United Thank Offering on a Saturday? (A Living Church editorial)

  Posted on June 29, 2005

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• Bishops Eye 'Final Settlement'

  The July 18-22 bishops’ meeting in Los Angeles will seek “a final settlement” of the current dispute, THE LIVING CHURCH has learned. The Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, Bishop of Los Angeles, will host a gathering of up to two-dozen bishops from across the theological spectrum at a facilitated conversation that organizers hope may lead to an amicable settlement of the Episcopal Church’s troubles.

  Posted on June 28, 2005

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• Size and Composition of ACC Committees Will Change

  The size and composition of the Anglican Consultative Council’s two elected committees will change significantly as a result of related decisions at ACC-13 in Nottingham. On June 20, delegates voted to add the primates standing committee as ex officio members of the ACC standing committee and on June 25 all but one of the seven ACC members elected came from provinces located in the Southern Hemisphere.

  Posted on June 28, 2005

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• Communion is Found Among Those Who Doubt and Hunger

  For his Sunday sermon on June 26 to the Anglican Consultative Council, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams developed a theme from the Book of Acts, reminding all of the provincial and theological factions present there is “no sign by which you can tell in and of yourself that you are acceptable to God” and calling to the Anglican Communion table all who are “hungry for God’s love, God’s truth and God’s healing.”

  Posted on June 28, 2005

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• Ecumenical Visitors Bring Greetings, Suggestions

  Ecumenical greetings for the World Council of Churches, the Mar Thoma Syrian Orthodox Church, Old Catholic Church, Lutheran World Federation, Methodist Church, Baptist Church and Churches Together, a British ecumenical group, interspersed the sessions of ACC-13 in Nottingham.

  Posted on June 28, 2005

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