Media Coverage of Anglo-Catholic Move Gets Ugly
Posted by Tim Drake
Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:00 AM
Well, the media mantra about the Vatican’s welcome to Anglicans has begun, and the anti-Catholicism is about as ugly as it gets.
Venues such as National Public Radio, the London Times, and the Kansas City Star describe the Church as “poaching.” USA Today says the Church is “rustling.” Other media outlets used the term “luring.” Some question whether the move was a “hostile... READ MORE
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Anglican to Catholic: An American Perspective
Posted by Tim Drake
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:06 PM
With the news about the Vatican’s change for Anglicans desiring to come into the Church, I decided to ask the perspective of an American who has taken that journey.
Father Douglas Grandon, pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Moline, Ill., is a former Anglican pastor who is married and has children. He came into the Catholic Church in June 2003 and was ordained a Catholic priest in May... READ MORE
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Episcopal Nuns Join the Catholic Church
Posted by Tim Drake
Friday, September 11, 2009 5:10 AM
In a move described by religious scholars as unprecedented, 10 members of the Episcopal religious community All Saints Sisters of the Poor were received into the Catholic Church by Baltimore Archbishop Edwin O’Brien on Sept. 3. The community’s chaplain, Rev. Warren Tanghe, also converted with the nuns.
Members of the order had been considering conversion for seven years. “We were drifting... READ MORE
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Anglicans on Brink of Schism
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:38 PM
Homosexual Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson. (UPPA)
In defiance of the majority of the Anglican Communion, the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. has voted in favor of ordaining homosexual bishops.
The unilateral action by the Episcopal Church, courtesy of a vote by its General Convention, moves the deeply divided Anglican Communion closer to formal schism.
The Los Angeles Times reports today:
Bishops, clergy and lay leaders voted overwhelmingly at... READ MORE
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Episcopalian Abuse Scandal
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, June 12, 2009 1:34 PM
People who think that sexual abuse by clergy is exclusively a Catholic problem, or that only Catholic bishops have mishandled abuse allegations, or that a married priesthood would solve the abuse problem, should read this article.
It’s a recapitulation published by The Houston Press of an egregious abuse scandal in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, involving a married Episcopalian priest who... READ MORE
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Scandal Priest Quits Church
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, May 29, 2009 6:06 AM
Father Alberto Cutié (CNS)
Father Alberto Cutié, the prominent Miami priest who was removed from active ministry because of public disclosure of scandalous conduct with a woman, has become an Episcopalian.
“Cutie (pronounced koo-tee-AY) was received into the Episcopal Church earlier Thursday at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Miami, Florida. He will pursue the priesthood in the Episcopalian faith, the Episcopal Diocese... READ MORE
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Episcopalian Rift Deepens
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:52 PM
Episcopal Bishop Jack Iker (CNS)
The Fort Worth Episcopal Diocese last weekend voted to sever its ties with the national Episcopal Church.
The diocese is the fourth to break with the national church over the past year because of its drift away from doctrinal orthodoxy.
“The time has come for a new path,” Episcopal Bishop Jack Iker of Fort Worth said Nov. 15 at the diocese’s annual meeting, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram READ MORE
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