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'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" ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...