Episcopal Church News

Since Oct. 20, when the Vatican announced its plan to welcome Anglicans into its fold, most responses have followed this pattern: Anglicans most directly affected by the plan have expressed gratitude. Others have used the occasion to criticize their fellow Anglicans or the Roman Catholic Church ...

Why would an Episcopalian want to become a Catholic? Here are some reasons ...

The Right Reverend Mark S. Sisk, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, will attend the 175th Anniversary Service and Celebration at Zion Episcopal Church in Wappingers Falls, Saturday, Novebmer 14, 2009 beginning at 4:00 pm.

THE Pope has made it as easy as possible for traditional and "continuing" Anglicans to convert to Roman Catholicism while retaining key elements of their ecclesiastical heritage.

The Empire State Pride Agenda today released a list of 700 clergy and lay leaders from across New York state who are in support of the legislature passing a marriage equality bill.

Bethlehem's Episcopal faithful welcomed their bishop Monday to an evening prayer service and a forum that touched on gay clergy and other contentious issues in the church ...

Sweden's Lutheran church said Monday it had ordained its first openly gay bishop, just two weeks after it gave priests the right to wed same-sex couples ...

Two resolutions of the Episcopal Church's 76th General Convention have prompted another bishop to grant permission for blessing same-sex couples ...

US Episcopal Bishop Stephen T. Lane of Maine has said he joins the "many Episcopalians [who] are deeply grieved" by Maine voters' rejection of that state's same-gender marriage law last week.

It could be the start of a groan-worthy joke. A Catholic priest, a rabbi, an Episcopal rector, a Methodist minister and a Lutheran pastor sit down for some interfaith dialogue ...

As two former Episcopal dioceses hold conventions this weekend, they are beginning to incorporate congregations from across the nation ...

The Rev. Brian Prior has firm roots in the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane. He grew up in Prosser, Wash., graduated from Whitworth College, was a fifth-grade substitute teacher at Midway Elementary in Mead and has worked in the diocese since he was ordained a priest in 1989.

Those roots will be transplanted to Minnesota as Prior prepares to take his new role as the ninth bishop of Minnesota in February ...

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Every Christmas we return again to the Nativity story, which relates how the archangel Gabriel appeared to Mary and told her, "[Y]ou will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus" . When Mary asked how this could be since she was a virgin, he explained: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High ...

Three out-of-state churches Saturday joined the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh - a group of 55 parishes that last year broke away from the national Episcopal Church of America over issues ranging from abortion to the consecration of a non-celibate gay bishop ...

St. Johna s Episcopal Church women will hold their annual Holiday Bazaar on Saturday, Nov.

http://www.saintjohnscathedral.org/worship/sermon-recordings.aspx#y2009 Click to hear the sermons from St. John's Cathedral, Jacksonville, Florida.

'When are you going to write about the Catholics' invitation to dissatisfied Anglicans?' a number of readers have asked.

They're referring to the Oct. 20 announcement that the Roman Catholic Church was going to make it easier for disaffected Anglican priests and communicants to join its ranks. The Vatican's prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal William J. Levada, said that Anglicans will be able "to enter full communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of the distinctive Anglican spiritual and liturgical patrimony" ...

Swedish press reports that the Church of England and Church of Ireland will boycott the consecration of a partnered lesbian priest as Bishop of Stockholm are not true, spokesmen for the Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop of Armagh told The Living Church.

There is no God, there is no heaven and there is no afterlife. At least, not in the way we have traditionally thought of such things.

But when a retired bishop says it, it's worth noting.

"My audience is not the people who go to church on Sunday morning," John Shelby Spong, the retired Episcopal bishop of Newark, N.J., said on a recent visit to Toronto ...