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7 hrs ago | www.saintjohnscathedral.org | Selecia Jones- JAX FL

St. John's Cathedral Sermons:On The Web

http://www.saintjohnscathedral.org/worship/sermon-recordings.aspx#y2009 Click to hear the sermons from St. John's Cathedral, Jacksonville, Florida.

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12 hrs ago | www.tallahassee.com | Joe DeCaro

Catholic overtures to the Anglicans not likely to matter in U.S.

'When are you going to write about the Catholics' invitation to dissatisfied Anglicans?' a number of readers have asked.

They're referring to the Oct. 20 announcement that the Roman Catholic Church was going to make it easier for disaffected Anglican priests and communicants to join its ranks. The Vatican's prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal William J. Levada, said that Anglicans will be able "to enter full communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of the distinctive Anglican spiritual and liturgical patrimony" ...

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Anglican, Pope Benedict XVI

15 hrs ago | www.livingchurch.org | Selecia Jones- JAX FL

Anglicans Respond Coolly to Swedish Consecration of Lesbian Bishop

Swedish press reports that the Church of England and Church of Ireland will boycott the consecration of a partnered lesbian priest as Bishop of Stockholm are not true, spokesmen for the Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop of Armagh told The Living Church.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Religion, Sweden, World News, Wedding

17 hrs ago | dailygleaner.canadaeast.com | Joe DeCaro

Retired bishop rejects traditional concepts

There is no God, there is no heaven and there is no afterlife. At least, not in the way we have traditionally thought of such things.

But when a retired bishop says it, it's worth noting.

"My audience is not the people who go to church on Sunday morning," John Shelby Spong, the retired Episcopal bishop of Newark, N.J., said on a recent visit to Toronto ...

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Related Topix: Religion, Newark, NJ

17 hrs ago | www.islandpacket.com | Joe DeCaro

Faithful hear sounds of spirituality in U2's music

American religion has adopted the rock band U2. Its lyrics can be heard coming from pulpits ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, U2, Marietta, GA, Baylor University

18 hrs ago | www.statesman.com | Selecia Jones- JAX FL

Sepulveda: First step toward full inclusion as American citizens

President Barack Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act last week.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Transgendered, Religion, Opinion

19 hrs ago | www.star-telegram.com | Joe DeCaro

Breakaway Episcopalians holding their first convention

The group that broke away from the Episcopal Church but still calls itself the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth is having its first convention since realigning with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone ...

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Related Topix: Religion, Anglican

19 hrs ago | www.post-gazette.com | Joe DeCaro

New Anglicans taking their travails in stride

At the convention of the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh, which is appealing a Common Pleas Court decision that awarded its property to the smaller Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, there was laughter over the litigation and its possible consequences ...

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Related Topix: Religion, Pittsburgh, PA, Anglican

Fri Nov 06, 2009

www.stltoday.com | Selecia Jones- JAX FL

Jane Black Dies: Ground Breaker For Episcopal Women

In 1967, the Episcopal bishop of Missouri said it was time to put a stop to the church's segregation of women.

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Related Topix: Religion, University City, MO, Clayton, MO, St. Louis, MO

Thu Nov 05, 2009

www.bnd.com | Joe DeCaro

Belleville minister: Former church wants to 'destroy' him

BELLEVILLE -- The Rev. Dale Coleman, who has quietly led St. George's Episcopal Church in Belleville for two years, believes there are people at his former church in New Mexico "who want to destroy me."

He said that a vendetta has followed him to Belleville that started over ideological differences involving homosexuals in the church but escalated into a series of personal attacks that he still faces in court ...

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Related Topix: Belleville, IL, Religion, Wedding

eye.columbiaspectator.com | Joe DeCaro

Keeping the Faith

Professor Randall Balmer is no stranger to religious diversity. Raised by evangelists, he left his fundamentalist background when he became a liberal in the 1970s. Then he joined the Episcopal Church and became ordained in 2006 ...

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Related Topix: Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church

www.bangordailynews.com | Joe DeCaro

Religious leaders react to repeal:

BANGOR, Maine — Religious leaders around Maine had mixed reactions Wednesday to the voters’ repeal of same-sex marriage on Election Day ...

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Related Topix: Wedding, Maine, Maine Government, Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Gay/Lesbian

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Living Church

Family Murders Shake Florida Congregation

Tragedy struck the congregation and day school at Grace Episcopal Church , Orange Park, Fla., early Tuesday morning.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office says that Jerry Waite Whitelaw, Jr., 49, killed his two children, Kevin, 16, and daughter, Katie, 11, as they slept at home. Then Mr. Whitelaw killed himself ...

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Related Topix: Religion, Orange Park, FL

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Living Church

N. Mich. Plans Election Changes

The Diocese of Northern Michigan has decided that it will choose from multiple nominees when it next elects a bishop ...

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Related Topix: Escanaba, MI, Religion

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Newsday

LI's new episcopal bishop faces strong challenges

Massachusetts Corps of Fire Chaplains, the Rev. Lawrence Provenzano spent five weeks at Ground Zero saying last rites over remains brought to a makeshift morgue ...

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Related Topix: Religion, New York Metro, Roman Catholic Church, Gay/Lesbian

WisInfo

Letters: Episcopal priest finds Vatican's offer puzzling

Almost 75 years ago I was baptized into Christ's one, holy catholic church. Later, I was confirmed in that same catholic faith ...

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Related Topix: Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Opinion

www.citizen-times.com | Joe DeCaro

Article should have mentioned the Anglican Province of America

I was rather surprised that the article "SC Episcopal diocese will weigh future" while it did mention the recently founded Anglican Church in North America, made no mention of the much older, and even more traditional, Anglican Province of America ...

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Related Topix: Anglican, Religion, Swannanoa, NC

www.theitem.com | Joe DeCaro

An unavoidable distancing?

The local Episcopal diocese says the national church of straying from biblical teachings and has taken steps to distance itself ...

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Related Topix: Religion, Mount Pleasant, SC, Gay/Lesbian, Wedding, Human Sexuality, Sumter, SC

www.buffalonews.com | Joe DeCaro

Five miniature Episcopal churches joining history center's collection

It will be the cat's meow - the ecclesiastical cat's meow. We're talking about the five new miniature, hand-painted, wooden Episcopal churches soon to be part of the Niagara County History Society, painstakingly created by Cat's Meow Village of Ohio ...

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Related Topix: Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Lockport, NY

The Tennessean Nashville News

Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee sues to reclaim church

Bishop John Bauerschmidt of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee has been hoping that God would resolve a conflict between the diocese and St. St. Andrew's ...

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Related Topix: Religion, Tennessee, Anglican

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