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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Episcopal Diocese Secedes
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, October 06, 2008 11:57 AM
Homosexual Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson. (UPPA)
The global crisis enveloping the Anglican Communion deepened this weekend.
At an Oct. 4 meeting, clerical and lay representatives of the Episcopalian diocese of Pittsburgh voted 240-102 to sever relations with the Episcopal Church.
The Episcopal Church’s ordination of openly homosexual bishop Gene Robinson and its liberal stances on a number of other matters provoked the Pittsburgh diocese... READ MORE
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