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• The Archbishop of York reveals his failure to understand LGB&T Anglicans

  
  Changing Attitude - Colin Coward & Christina Beardsley — Authority: 111
  In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, the Archbishop of York says: “Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.” “I don’t think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is. It is set in tradition and history and you can’t just [change it] overnight, no matter how powerful [...]
  22 hours ago

• Bishop of Leicester: ‘Lord Carey was wrong to defend government’s welfare reforms’

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 436
  ...I disagree profoundly with the Government’s and Lord Carey’s view that our action in the Lords was about prolonging a culture of welfare dependency, or the implication that increased material poverty for some is a price worth paying to alleviate what some have described as the poverty of aspiration.... The ...
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• George Carey—My fellow bishops are wrong. Fuelling the culture of welfare dependency is immoral.

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 436
  ...these five bishops — led by the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds — cannot lay claim to the moral high-ground. The sheer scale of our public debt, which hit £1trillion yesterday, is the greatest moral scandal facing Britain today. If we can’t get the deficit under control and begin paying back this debt, we will ...
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• (Church Times) C of E Bishops win Lords victory on benefit for ‘voteless’ children

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 436
  Bishops led the House of Lords on Monday evening to vote in favour of an amendment excluding child benefit from the proposed cap on benefits in the Welfare Reform Bill. Children’s charities welcomed the amendment, proposed by the Bishop of Ripon & Leeds, the Rt Revd John Packer, as a safeguard for those — ...
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• We will all be changed

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 507
  From Ancient Briton A further drop in Church of England attendance has been reported . Average Sunday attendance fell from 944,400 in 2009 to 923,700 the following year, continuing the long-term downward trend . Hardly the result one might have expected after the church decided to make itself more relevant to ...
  2 days ago

• Divine dispatches: a religion roundup | David Shariatmadari

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Divine dispatches: a religion roundup | David Shariatmadari The pope warns of radical secularism; storm grows over closure of Ireland’s Vatican embassy; Gaudi inspires Catholic conversion• Rome has had a busy few days. Before advising the faithful on the uses and abuses of ...
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• Lord Carey rescues the CofE from disrepute

  
  News Politics — Authority: 128
  Just when you were thinking that the higher strata of the established church was completely out of touch with the beliefs of the country (and common sense), the former of Archbishop of Canterbury comes along and restores a dimension of reality. Lord Carey – who was often regarded with outright contempt by the ...
  3 days ago

• Marylands Governor Introduces Same-Sex Marriage bill

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 430
  With Washington State poised to enact same sex marriage, Marylands Governor Martin OMalley (pictured at left) introduced legislation Monday night to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland. The bill reportedly contains more broad protections for groups that would not want to perform or honor same-sex marriages in an ...
  4 days ago

• How did this get on the science page? | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.guardian.co.uk How did this get on the science page? | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics “A new study suggests…” that if going to church makes you a Tory, those Bishops are even more confused than I thoughtI have been wondering why this “Does voting in a church turn you into a ...
  4 days ago

• Welfare reform: Labour, bishops and Lib Dem peers derail benefits cap plan

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk Welfare reform: Labour, bishops and Lib Dem peers derail benefits cap plan Ministers reacted with fury as Church leaders suggested that capping benefits at a maximum of £26,000 a year was somehow un-Christian. published date:Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:35:28 GMT
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• English Bishops - questions to answer

  
  This makes me mad, you too? — Authority: 111
  An amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill, that is currently winding its way through Parliament, was passed in the House of Lords, last night.  This amendment, was tabled by the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds and was supported by other bishops, Labour peers, so-called cross bench peers (said to be independents) and Liberal ...
  4 days ago

• Battle Over Controversial Benefits Cap Plans

  
  Future News — Authority: 125
  Ministers are braced for a clash with the House of Lords over the Government’s attempts to cap benefits at £500 a week. Church of England bishops and rebel Liberal Democrats are threatening to derail Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s flagship benefit reforms when peers vote on the measure later. The ...
  5 days ago

• David Clohessys Kansas City Deposition Unsealed: Notes on SNAP Press Statement

  
  Bilgrimage — Authority: 469
  The SNAP website has a good media statement from last week addressing the unprecedented demand in two Missouri cities , Kansas City and St. Louis, that SNAP open its files to the scrutiny of lawyers hired by Catholic officials to defend priests accused of sex crimes with minors.  As the press release notes, a ...
  6 days ago

• Abortion and Contraception: A WHO Study and Implications for Catholic Pro-Lifers

  
  Bilgrimage — Authority: 469
  Yesterday, I summed up my reflections on the decision of the Obama administration to support the recommendation of the National Academy of Sciences Institute for Medicine to assure access to contraception as part of a comprehensive health care plan for women, when I wrote, Many of us, in fact, will be applauding ...
  6 days ago

• The Parish Church of St. Helena in Beaufort starts celebrating its tricentennial Today

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 436
  "This is our big, grand celebration to kick off all the other things that will be happening throughout the year," explained Jan Pringle, tricentennial standing committee co-chairwoman with Bob Barrett. "There is a tremendous amount of excitement among our parishioners, and I personally am overjoyed because this is ...
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• Bishops urges both sides in Corona trial to avoid technicalities

  
  Philippine News Feed — Authority: 143
  Some Catholic bishops are asking both the prosecution and defense not to get too caught up with legal technicalities and jargon for the sake of the Filipino masses who want to keep up with the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona. Read full story: Bishops urges both sides in Corona trial to avoid ...
  1 week ago

• Shame on Scranton U.

  
  Catholic Exchange — Authority: 433
  Scranton University Refuses Bishop’s Call to Withdraw Invitation to Pro-Abortion Rights Speaker Last week, The Cardinal Newman Society reported that Scranton University is hosting a former Congresswoman and advocate of abortion rights on campus to help train women to run for public office. On Tuesday, The ...
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• (Church Times) C of E policy on appointing bishops may face legal test

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 436
  The present moratorium on openly gay bishops, formally imposed last year by the House of Bishops, is facing a legal challenge.... The first stage of a challenge under employment legislation is the issuing of a questionnaire. It is un­derstood that this took place some time in the autumn of 2010. The church ...
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• Guess Whos Coming to Dinner? Mormons Join Catholic Bishops Discrimination Party in Minnesota

  
  Bilgrimage — Authority: 469
  Guess whos coming to dinner?  The dinner being the discrimination-gala the Catholic bishops of Minnesota have been throwing the past few years, as they make combating the gays and the human rights of gay citizens their major priority. The new dinner guests (to no ones real surprise): the Mormons.  As Joanna ...
  1 week ago

• The crisis of the church is a crisis of Bishops: Sì, è vero, the bishop defends homosexual partnerships

  
  RORATE CLI — Authority: 558
  A reader read this in another blog and asked us if it was true.Yes, it is true! Is it not wonderful? Favorable to homosexual couples, but with the appropriate distinctions. It is what the Bishop of Ragusa, Bp. Paolo Urso, confirms after his declarations appeared on the internet following an interview given to ...
  1 week ago

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