Schori to ‘focus on more important matters’
“The head of the Anglican church in the US has said that her church has embarrassed other parts of the Anglican Communion with its approach to sexuality.
Speaking ahead of the Lambeth Conference, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori defended churches that had confronted the controversial issue.
She said she hoped that Anglican bishops gathering in Canterbury this week would not be distracted by discussions about sexuality, but rather would focus on more important matters like international development and climate change. …”
– Report from BBC News.
‘Cardinal Newman to be reinterred in preparation for sainthood’
The Vatican has ordered that the body of Cardinal Newman, the Church of England’s most renowned convert to Roman Catholicism, be exhumed and reinterred in a marble sarcophagus, where it can be more easily venerated by the faithful. …
– Story from Ruth Gledhill in Times Online.
(Note also Article XXII of the Thirty Nine Articles.) Photo: University College Dublin.
Darkest hour at Lambeth
While Sydney is embracing Popemania and aspires to unity in the wider Catholic Church, it is a different story for Anglicans.
Tomorrow, the Lambeth Conference of Bishops of the worldwide Anglican Church begins in Canterbury, England. … – from The Herald-Sun.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…