News Updates

News Updates

July 2009

• South African Bishop Condemns Convention’s ‘Deliberate Defiance’

  General Convention’s adoption of resolutions D025 and C056 is “theologically uninformed, incoherent with the wider church, endorsing schism in the Anglican Communion and threatens ecumenical fellowship and relations," said the bishop of the Diocese of Port Elizabeth.

  Posted on July 31, 2009

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• SE Asia: Convention’s Actions ‘Repudiate Listening Process’

  The Province of the Anglican Church in Southeast Asia has condemned General Convention's approval of two resolutions regarding human sexuality.

  Posted on July 31, 2009

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• Church Building Fund Plans Move to Richmond

  The trustees of the Episcopal Church Building Fund have announced that the fund’s headquarters is leaving the Episcopal Church Center in New York and relocating to Richmond, Va.

  Posted on July 30, 2009

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• Vatican Backs Archbishop Williams’ Response to Convention Actions

  The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity said it shares the concerns of Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams that the Anglican Communion’s unity be maintained through common faith and practice based on scripture and tradition.

  Posted on July 29, 2009

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• Fr. Thew Forrester Reflects on Consent Process

  The Standing Committee of the Diocese of Northern Michigan has called for discussion on how bishops and standing committees can be made aware of diocesan needs, and "how new communications technologies affect the consent process."

  Posted on July 28, 2009

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• Northern Michigan Bishop-elect Fails to Gain Consents

  The Rev. Kevin Thew Forrester, bishop-elect of the Diocese of Northern Michigan, has not received sufficient consents from the standing committees or bishops of The Episcopal Church.

  Posted on July 27, 2009

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• Assurances on Convention Actions ‘Unpersuasive,’ Archbishop Says

  While the adoption of resolutions on rites for the blessing of same-sex unions and the consecration of gay clergy to the episcopate have not created a de facto schism, they do signal TEC’s likely removal to the periphery of the life and witness of the Anglican Communion through the creation of a two-tier communion of covenanting and non-covenanting provinces, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams wrote Monday.

  Posted on July 27, 2009

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• Archbishop: Two-Track Communion Possible

  In a 2,800-word reflection on The Episcopal Church's relationship to the broader Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury on Monday again emphasized that the Communion may follow a two-track model in its future structure.

  Posted on July 27, 2009

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• Bishops Discuss Paradoxical Votes on Consecrations, Blessings

  As General Convention debated its two most-examined resolutions in July, about ten bishops cast paradoxical votes.

  Posted on July 24, 2009

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• Convention Officers Write Archbishop, Primates on Same-Sex Blessings

  Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson have written to the Archbishop of Canterbury and primates to explain General Convention’s adoption of Resolution C056.

  Posted on July 23, 2009

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