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• 3 part invention - vicars getting an evening job behind the bar

  
  furtherandfaster — Authority: 134
  Had our former lodger and youthworker Ben Wood round to lunch today. Hes from Rugby and told me an interesting tale of an initiative from the local clergy and youthworkers there. Apparently there is a rule for those who do church work to take their days in 3 parts. If they work morning and afternoon then not to work ...
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• Heads of Catholic, Anglican Churches Holds Talks

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 687
  The Archbishop of Canterbury and Pope Benedict XVI took significant steps on Saturday to heal the rift between their respective faiths.
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• SECURITY, LIKE CHARITY, SHOULD BEGIN AT HOME MR MILIBAND

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 121
  According to the incompetent, out-of-his-depth UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband, The Afghan government headed up by recently “re-elected” President Hamid Karzai (pictured above) could fall within weeks if NATO pulled out its troops out of the country. Miliband was warning British opponents of the war to give ...
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• BBC: Anglicans and Catholics attempt to bridge divide

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  The meeting between Pope Benedict and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams had been billed as something of a showdown. After all, it was the first since the Popes invitation to disgruntled Anglicans to convert to Catholicism. Many Anglicans had spoken openly of their concern not only that the invitation was ...
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• Archbishop of Canterbury in goalpost moving exercise

  
  A View from Middle England by Arden Forester — Authority: 132
  The Archbishop of Canterbury has gone to Rome. Not over to Rome. Just a short visit to speak his mind. However, it seems to me his mind is tortuously flexible these days. He spoke at length when giving an address in Rome, as the guest of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The address was part of a ...
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• Rowans Roman Bluff

  
  The Ugley Vicar — Authority: 511
  For a man hardly renowned for his robustness, the recent speech given in Rome by the Archbishop of Canterbury was remarkably robust. Of course, it was given partly in response to the announcement from Rome on October 20 th of effectively a ‘safe haven’ for Anglicans disenchanted by the policies of the Church ...
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• TIme Magazine—The Anglican and Catholic Churches: Friends or Rivals?

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  [Rowan] Williams mood is unlikely to be as upbeat when he meets with Pope Benedict on Saturday, just a month after the Vaticans surprise announcement outlining historic new procedures designed to help disaffected conservative Anglicans enter the Roman Catholic fold. Both Anglicans and Catholics are now awaiting the ...
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• Bishop of Leicester attacks BNP intolerance

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 144
  . The Right Rev Tim Stevens, Bishop of Leicester The Bishop of Leicester has attacked the BNPs intolerance after a party member claimed he was bullied by the Church. David North said he was pressured into stepping down as a churchwarden at St Thomas of Canterbury Church in Frisby when his membership of the ...
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• Archbishop blamed for Vatican offer: CEN 11.13.09 p 7.

  
  Conger — Authority: 432
  The Archbishop of Canterbury’s shameful failure of leadership lies behind the Pope’s offer of a home for alienated Anglicans, the primates’ council of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON/FCA) said in a statement released on Nov 10. While Pope Benedict XVI’s offer of an “Apostolic Constitution” ...
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• Archbishop criticizes Vatican church plan: CEN 11.13.09 p 7.

  
  Conger — Authority: 432
  The Archbishop of Wales, Dr. Barry Morgan has criticized Pope Benedict XVI’s offer of personal ordinariates for Anglicans seeking to enter the Roman Catholic Church, saying the Oct 20 statement from the Vatican was an unhelpful interference in the life of the Anglican Communion. On Nov 9, Dr. Morgan stated, the ...
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• Unionists back Church in row over school funding: CEN 11.13.09 p 7.

  
  Conger — Authority: 432
  Unionist members of the Northern Ireland Assembly lent their support last week to the Church of Ireland in its battle with the Republic of Ireland’s Education Minister Batt O’Keefe over cuts in state funding for Protestant schools. During a debate over Education cooperation between Northern Ireland and the ...
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• Lincs headteacher named as Mistress of Tory MP...

  
  Fair Deal Phil — Authority: 116
  Governors at a south Lincs School have jumped to the defence of their head teacher after she was named by a national newspaper as the former Mistress of Conservative MP David Curry who has been caught up in the parliamentary expenses scandal. Parents of children at Bourne Abbey Church of England school must have ...
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• Scottish alcohol plan backed by bishops: CEN 11.13.09 p 7.

  
  Conger — Authority: 432
  The bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church have backed the Scottish Government’s proposed bill to regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol. “If our nation and each of us within it is to have a healthy future then the nettle that is alcohol misuse must be grasped,” the Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney, Dr. ...
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• UK Catholics warn against “decriminalising” suicide

  
  FaithWorld — Authority: 646
  Catholic bishops in England and Wales warned against people thinking they may be exempt from prosecution in assisting suicide after new guidelines were issued. The  Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) set out the guidelines in September in an attempt to bring greater clarity to the thorny issue of prosecution, ...
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• UK Catholics warn against “decriminalising” suicide

  
  UK News — Authority: 431
  Catholic bishops in England and Wales warned against people thinking they may be exempt from prosecution in assisting suicide after new guidelines were issued. The  Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) set out the guidelines in September in an attempt to bring greater clarity to the thorny issue of prosecution, ...
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• Bishop of Lincoln backs move to restrict DNA database

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  A move to severely restrict the number of people whose details are held on the national DNA database has been supported by the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. Bishop John Saxbee said the move could help to end a “culture of growing mistrust”. Tory and Liberal Democrat peers made an attempt in the House of Lords to ...
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• RNS: Anglican Leader, in Rome, Optimistic on Ecumenical Strains

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  [Rowan] Williams downplayed the significance of the Vatican plan, which he called an “imaginative pastoral response to the needs of some” that “does not break any fresh ecclesiological ground.” A new Catholic diocese for former Anglicans, he suggested, is more likely to resemble a mere “chaplaincy” than a ...
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• National Catholic Register: Constitution for Anglican Converts Released

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Speaking to the Register Nov. 10, Father Christopher Phillips, pastor of the first Pastoral Provision parish, Our Lady of the Atonement in San Antonio, said he is waiting to see what might happen when the Church establishes the first ordinariate. “It seems as though the Pastoral Provision has done its job,” he ...
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• The Tablet Talks with Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  According to Nichols, there was not much consultation at all by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith about its plans for the Anglicans. “It is a difficult thing to do and opening it up to public consultation would have made it public, ” he said. He and Williams had known about the initiative for a couple ...
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• Guardian: Rowan Williams urges Rome to rethink position on female bishops

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  The archbishop of Canterbury today pleaded with Roman Catholics to set aside their differences with Anglicans over the issue of female bishops, insisting there was more uniting the denominations than dividing them. Rowan Williams was giving a lecture in Rome before Saturdays meeting with the pope, their first ...
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