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Created by dipity on May 28, 2009
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...Episcopal priest now preparing for ordination in the Catholic church, said parishioners voted Sunday at Mount Calvary Episcopal Church. Tanghe said members were also upset with clergy who questioned beliefs such as the Holy Trinity. An archdiocese spokesman...
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WTOP News
http://www.wtopnews.com/?sid=2094246&nid=736
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The Diocese of Virginia is gratified by the Supreme Court of Virginia’s ruling that the 57-9 “Division Statute” was incorrectly applied by the Fairfax County Circuit Court. The statute has forced faithful Episcopalians to worship elsewhere for over
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Thinking Anglicans: UK
http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/004416.html
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The Episcopal Church has consecrated a woman as its second openly gay bishop, seven years after stirring lingering controversy by ordaining a man to a similar post. The Rev. Canon Mary Glasspool, of Baltimore, was ordained and consecrated on Saturday.
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NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126863068&ft=1&f=1016
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The Associated Press | LONG BEACH, Calif. The Episcopal Church has ordained its second openly gay bishop. Church spokesman Bob Williams says the Rev. Canon Mary Glasspool, of Baltimore, was consecrated Saturday at a ceremony attended by 3,000 people in
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San Diego Union-Tribune
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/may/15/episcopal-church-in-la-ordains-2nd-gay-bishop/
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Evangelism and social action. If pressed ... if one has to choose, eternal salvation is more important than temporal welfare. This seems to be indisputable. But I want immediately to add that one should not normally have to choose. As William Temple
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11847
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News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
12/26/2009
A longed for Covenant that millions of Anglicans hoped would draw the Anglican Communion together as a family is looking increasingly like the Munich Agreement with a policy of
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11820
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Politics and the State. Compassion and justice. Compassion needs moral guidelines; without the ingredient of justice it is bound to go astray.--From 'Does Life Begin Before Birth?' "Christianity Today"
Though the Son was incorporeal, He formed for
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11815
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A story on the Life cover June 6 gave an incorrect church name when referring to the Rev. Suzy Ward being installed as priest-in-charge at Visalia Episcopal Church. The correct name is Saint Paul's Episcopal Church.
Three Valley Presbyterian
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Fresno Bee
http://www.fresnobee.com/corrections/story/1757346.html
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According to numbers released in December by the Episcopal Church, that denomination's membership dropped by 3 percent in 2008. That doesn't sound like much, but I am a bit of a demographics junkie, plus I researched and examined a lot of church
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Crosswalk
http://www.crosswalk.com/11624072/
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St. Andrew's members push for joining Anglicans
The Post and Courier
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/dec/19/parish-looks-to-leave/
December 19, 2009
St. Andrew's Church in Mount Pleasant is the most recent church to take steps to leave The
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11780
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Limits of authority. Whenever laws are enacted which contradict God's law, civil disobedience becomes a Christian duty. There are notable examples of it in Scripture. When Pharaoh ordered the Hebrew midwives to kill the newborn boys, they refused to
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11771
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By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
12/18/2009
St. Andrews Episcopal Church, the largest parish in the Diocese of South Carolina has voted overwhelmingly to leave The Episcopal Church and join with the emerging Anglican Church of North America.
A
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11761
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The Fresno Bee
http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1746401.html
December 12, 2009
Two years ago this week, the Diocese of San Joaquin seceded from the U.S. Episcopal Church, launching a legal battle over church property that is now headed toward a
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11731
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...of the time," said Frank Kirkpatrick, a professor of religion at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and author of "The Episcopal Church in Crisis." But the breakaway San Joaquin diocese contends that this case is different. It is the first time the U.S. Episcopal...
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Fresno Bee
http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1746401.html
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Given the theologically conservative make-up of the laity and Spanish-speaking congregants of the L.A. Diocese a lot of support went for Vasquez. According to the Rev. Altagracia Perez, rector of Holy Faith Church in Inglewood, CA diversity was an
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Pam's House Blend
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PamsHouseBlend/~3/qceyqRr-XqM/irene-monroe-race-and-queer-divide-with-election-of-lesbian-priest
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The Rev. Mary D. Glasspool, right, is poised to become the second openly gay bishop elected in the 2.1 million-member Episcopal Church.
After years of warnings from Anglican leaders, the recent election of a lesbian bishop poses a stark question for
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Houston Chronicle
http://feeds.chron.com/~r/houstonchronicle/lrel/~3/aNW7gzl_D5A/6764079.html
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...accepting same-sex relationships despite enormous pressure from other Anglicans to change their stand. The head of the Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, has said she would consecrate any elected bishop as long as church rules for...
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The San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_13936704?source=rss
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The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected a lesbian as assistant bishop Saturday, the second openly gay bishop in the global Anglican fellowship, which is already deeply fractured over the first. The Rev. Mary Glasspool of Baltimore needs approval
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ABC News
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9256783
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News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
12/2/2009
The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church is optimistic about the future of The Episcopal Church, but the one word not found in her vocabulary is the e-word - evangelism.
Katharine
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11664
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From
Date Wed, 2 Dec 2009 08:05:18 -0500
>Episcopal Life Daily
>December 1, 2009
Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.
>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:
* TOP STORY - Committee
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Worldwide Faith News
http://www.wfn.org/2009/12/msg00005.html
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By Amy Merrick When the members of St. Luke's of the Mountains Church in La Crescenta, Calif., voted in 2006 to leave the Episcopal Church, they never meant they wanted to leave their church.But last month, they got notice they were being evicted from
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125909715655362891.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama
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- Part 1
University Elects Pro-Gay Bishop as Chancellor
Trustees Dump Ft. Worth Bishop's Orthodox Trustees
This is the first in a three-part series on the University of the South, the Episcopal Church's only university with a School of Theology as
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11584
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By A.S. Haley
http://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/11/deal-that-ecusa-cannot-refuse.html
November 14, 2009
The law must mean nothing any more. Up is down; black is white; and all property of Episcopal parishes everywhere is now the "property of the
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11564
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Episcopal News Service
October 23, 2009
Describing themselves as representing the "broad center" of the Episcopal Church, six bishops were welcomed Oct. 23 as guests of Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams at his London residence, Lambeth Palace.
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11496
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Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth to have its first ordination of woman to priesthood
Sam Hodges/Reporter
Dallas Morning News
http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/10/episcopal-diocese-of-fort-wort.html
October 27, 2009
The Episcopal
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11453
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Allan S. Haley
http://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/
October 22, 2009
It is bad enough that the Episcopal Church (USA) has been saddled with a Presiding Bishop who cannot, and will not, recognize the limitations on her authority imposed by the
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11439
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October 24, 2009
[Episcopal News Service] A majority of delegates attending a special convention of the Charleston-based Diocese of South Carolina voted October 24 to distance themselves from the Episcopal Church and to seek "missional relationships
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11437
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86 Domestic Dioceses show decline: 2008 ASA figure 3% down from 2007
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue and Mary Ann Mueller
www.virtueonline.org
10/14/2009
The Episcopal Church (USA) continued its downward spiral in church attendance in 2008 with 8
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Virtue Online
Related Topics
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11345
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http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/oct/11/sc-episcopalians-nearing-votebishop-discusses/
October 11, 2009
In the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, concerns over the recent actions taken in July at the General Convention, and over matters of
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11338
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by Mark J. Lawrence
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/oct/09/bishop-lawrence-clarifies-position-of-episcopal/
October 9, 2009
While I appreciate Adam Parker's attempt to understand the larger issues surrounding the upcoming Special Convention of
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11328
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The real difference in the Church today isn't between those who are high-church and those who are low-church, but between those who believe Jesus' tomb is really empty and those who don't. ---- Bishop John Rodgers, former Dean of Trinity School for
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11324
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From The Episcopal Church
October 2009
"A beautiful tapestry woven together into something we call identity"
[October 8, 2009] A groundbreaking report that describes how Episcopalians look at their church has been released with plans for future
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11314
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By Allan S. Haley
http://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/
October 7, 2009
Up until now, I have reserved judgment about the legal abilities of Judge Joseph M. James of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania. Based on the transcripts of
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11305
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by CASEY RYAN VOCK Contributing Writer
The Plattsburgh Press Republican
http://www.pressrepublican.com/midday/local_story_277145134.html/resources_printstory
October 04, 2009
Clair "Toby" Touby and others are concerned that Bishop William Love is
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11292
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Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos said: The greatest sickness of our age is the vain thoughts of secular people, which bring stress. Only Christ can provide a cure with spiritual serenity, along with eternity, provided you repent and turn to Him.
A Servant
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11248
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Litigation against Disaffiliating Dioceses: Is it Authorized and What does Fiduciary Duty Require?
The Anglican Communion Institute, Inc.
September 17th, 2009
This paper examines whether the Presiding Bishop is authorized to initiate and conduct recent
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11210
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When 10 Maryland nuns left the Episcopal Church earlier this month and converted to Catholicism, they did so in part because they felt their former church was too liberal on LGBT issues.
“We just seemed to be following different paths,” said Christina
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Washington Blade
http://washblade.com/2009/9-18/news/localnews/15189.cfm
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September 4, 2009
To our Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ at St. Andrew's:
For many years now, the clergy and lay leadership of St. Andrew's Church have wrestled with the increasing tension between St. Andrew's and The Episcopal Church caused by the
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11158
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...have upset the worldwide Anglican Communion, which generally opposes homosexuality as conflicting with Scripture. The Episcopal Church is a member of the Anglican Communion, made up of provinces around the world with an estimated 74 million members. Already,...
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San Antonio Express
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/Christ_Church_members_wrestle_with_new_Episcopal_policies.html
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...Street in New York City. Widely regarded as a forward-looking yet conciliatory leader, Mr. Coburn helped shepherd the Episcopal Church in the United States through some of the most divisive issues of the 1960s and afterward. From 1967 to 1976, he was president...
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The New York Times
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=2a73f4fd2590093e2c454b1a08dae46d
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By A.S. Haley
http://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/
August 8, 2009
The post-hearing briefing called for by Judge James in the Pittsburgh litigation is now complete, with opening briefs filed by ECUSA and the remnant group claiming to be the "Episcopal
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=10990
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A response and reflections on General Convention 2009
by Bruce MacPherson
July 30, 2009
[Canon III.12.3(b) Constitution and Canons of General Convention 2006].
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=10971
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Episcopal dioceses' 'divorce' necessary, tough, members say
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09207/986212-455.stm
July 26, 2009
As the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh neared a split, Betsy Hetzler could not follow her beloved
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=10959
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From Worldwide Faith News
Date Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:51:44 -0700
Communion, Covenant and our Anglican Future
Posted On : July 28, 2009 3:11 PM | Posted By : Webmaster
ACNS: http://www.aco.org/acns/news.cfm/2009/7/28/ACNS4641
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Worldwide Faith News
http://www.wfn.org/2009/08/msg00013.html
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...weeks after the Episcopal Church ended a de facto moratorium on promoting gay men and lesbians into the church hierarchy, church leaders in Los Angeles nominated two openly gay priests as assistant bishops on Sunday. The move came a day after a church search...
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The New York Times
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http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=0be453025d80666b7b851d8d7357f407
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...said "very serious anxieties have already been expressed," about the pro-gay resolutions approved this month by the Episcopal Church at its General Convention in Anaheim, Calif. While "there is no threat of being cast into outer darkness," Williams said,...
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Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
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http://pewforum.org/news/rss.php?NewsID=18459
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As the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh neared a split, Betsy Hetzler could not follow her beloved Church of the Atonement in Carnegie out of the Episcopal Church.
She moved to the Church of the Nativity in Crafton, but she still supports Atonement's
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09207/986212-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml
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...provinces are already in a state of either impaired or broken communion with the Episcopal Church. This move by the Episcopal Church will further widen their effective separation from the bulk of worldwide Anglicans. "The Episcopal Church understands that...
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Spero News
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/speroforum/nroq/~3/2Jt-37oB_5I/Episcopal-Church-USA-to-ordain-homosexual-bishops
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
www.virtueonline.org
7/14/2009
Another milestone passed when both the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies passed D025 resolution which affirmed that all baptized persons be permitted access to "any ordained ministry"
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Virtue Online
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=10829
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...who leads the Episcopal Church, was among bishops who voted to approve the declaration. The statement also affirms the Episcopal Church's commitment to participate in and help fund the Anglican Communion, the third-largest grouping of churches worldwide, behind...
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Times Herald-Record
http://recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090714/NEWS/90714006/-1/rss01
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