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NEWS STORY: Episcopal bishops revist same-sex marriage issue
c. 1997 Religion News Service
PHILADELPHIA _ The nation's Episcopal bishops Wednesday (July 23) kept alive the issue of the church blessing same-sex unions.
The Episcopal Church's House of Bishops approved a directive for the church's liturgical experts to continue a theological s...
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NEWS STORY: Episcopal Church elects Chicago centrist as new presiding bishop
c. 1997 Religion News Service
PHILADELPHIA _ The Episcopal Church turned Monday (July 21) to a sharp-witted 59-year-old centrist from Chicago to be its presiding bishop for the next nine years.
Bishop Frank Tracy Griswold III of the Diocese of Chicago was elected by his fellow bis...
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NEWS STORY: Episcopal Church approves historic agreement with Lutherans
c. 1997 Religion News Service
PHILADELPHIA _ The Episcopal Church Friday (July 18) approved its end of an historic intercommunion agreement with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) that will create pastor exchanges, common parishes and joint ministries.
The decision...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: New bishop, new direction for the Episcopal Church
c. 1997 Religion News Service
PHILADELPHIA _ The Episcopal Church _ known in recent decades for its emphasis on social activism _ appears to have embarked on a new, middle-of-the road course focused on evangelism and healing internal divisions.
The shift in emphasis was evident he...
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NEWS STORY: Episcopal Church moves to clarify faith
c. 1997 Religion News Service
PHILADELPHIA _ An expected change in Episcopal Church law may for the first time in its 208-year-old history give church members a legally binding doctrine of faith.
Currently the church operates under a common understanding that its doctrine is found...
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NEWS SIDEBAR: A conversation with Presiding Bishop Browning of the Episcopal Church
c. 1997 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ When the Episcopal Church meets in General Convention in Philadelphia July 16-25, Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning will round out his 12-year term as head of the 2.5 million-member church. In a conversation with RNS correspondent Ed Briggs...
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NEWS FEATURE: Presiding Bishop Browning recalls 12 tumultuous years
c. 1997 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ When Bishop Edmond L. Browning of Hawaii was elected in 1985 to head the Episcopal Church for a dozen years, he found a denomination that would test his ability to keep intact a house rooted in tradition but embracing the realities of modern...
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NEWS STORY: Cardinal Mahony, Mother Angelica in flap over liturgical changes
c. 1997 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES _ Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony's effort to introduce changes in the way Mass is celebrated in his Archdiocese of Los Angeles has drawn the fire of influential traditionalist nun Mother Angelica, who is urging Southern California Cath...
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NEWS STORY: Church of England calls for revamping refugee laws to make them"humane”
c. 1997 Religion News Service
LONDON _ The Church of England's general synod _ the Anglican denomination's top governing body _ has called on the British government to revamp the nation's refugee laws to make them more"humane." The 575-member synod, which includes laity, priests an...
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NEWS STORY: Anglican bishops reject pope’s view of papal authority
c. 1997 Religion News Service
LONDON (RNS) _ Anglican bishops of the Church of England, in a formal response to Pope John Paul II's 1995 encyclical on Christian unity, have taken issue with the pontiff's view that the teaching authority of the Christian church is centered in the off...
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