Evangelicals create system to select alternative CofE leaders opposed to same sex relationships

Jan 4, 2024 by

from Religion Media Centre: The Church of England Evangelical Council has announced the names of nine people who will select leaders to give “spiritual oversight” of clergy and members of church councils who object to same sex blessings...

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It Is Not Good for Some Couples to Be Alone

Jan 3, 2024 by

by Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine: The upshot is that two boys or two girls should not be a couple at all because that exclusivity is not what friendship is for; it is, in fact, an obstacle to the full flourishing of friendship. Two...

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Fiducia supplicans: Between a rock and a hard place

Jan 3, 2024 by

by Christopher R. Altieri, Catholic World: The reported influx of requests for papal blessings on parchment sheets for same-sex couples puts Pope Francis is a very difficult position. Two developments—both entirely foreseeable, one so...

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The Cost of “Making a Mess”

Dec 24, 2023 by

by Charles J. Chaput, First Things: One of the standards the Church uses to measure the quality of her leaders is a simple line from Scripture: “God is not the author of confusion but of peace” (1 Cor. 14:33). So it was for Paul. So it is...

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Pope’s same-sex blessing could be a curse for priests

Dec 21, 2023 by

by Roger Watson, TCW: […]  With the ruling in place until Monday December 18 2023 that same-sex marriages may not be blessed, same-sex couples knew that they were on a hiding to nothing in seeking a blessing for their union from a...

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A painful choice

Dec 20, 2023 by

by Campbell Campbell-Jack, A Grain of Sand: Last Sunday Catherine Bond and Jane Pearce, a lesbian couple who are both priestesses in the Church of England and who both have children from previous marriages to men, received the first...

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