Monthly Archives: June 2012

  Leader: Women bishops: what should happen next Posted: 29 Jun 2012 @ 02:51 Share on facebookShare on bloggerShare on twitterShare on emailMore Sharing Services8 THE General Synod is in trouble. In ten days’ time, it is to consider giving … Continue reading →

Latest News Ordinariate returns £1m grant 29 June 2012 The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham has returned a £1 million grant from an Anglican group after the Charity Commission ruled it should never have been made. The money was given to … Continue reading →

Charity Commission rules CBS grant to Ordinariate is invalid The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament has issued a Statement by the Superior-General, Fr Christopher Pearson, at Council-General meeting, 28 June 2012. The statement can be found on the CBS website, and can be downloaded as a PDF file. The Charity … Continue reading →

Thursday, 28 June 2012 Reform and women bishops Reform has issued this statement saying that the bishops’ amendments are not sufficient and that they will encourage their members on General Synod to vote against the legislation as it stands. Media Statement: Reform … Continue reading →

A group of senior women clergy have sent the letter below to the members of General Synod to express their opposition to the bishops’ amendment to Clause 5 of the draft Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure, … Continue reading →

Tuesday, 26 June 2012 GRAS writes to General Synod members GRAS (Group for Rescinding the Act of Synod) have sent the letter below to the members of General Synod to express their opposition to the bishops’ amendment to Clause 5 … Continue reading →

 Christians need to overcome their own feelings of embarrassment, shame and disgust about homosexuality, the Archbishop of Canterbury has insisted. Dr Rowan Williams acknowledged that the Church was still “scratching its head” about where it stands on issues like same-sex marriage … Continue reading →

How My View on Gay Marriage Changed By DAVID BLANKENHORN Published: June 22, 2012 In my 2007 book, “The Future of Marriage,” and in my 2010 court testimony concerning Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that defined marriage as between a man and a woman, … Continue reading →

‘Silence is a lovely idea’ – so why have churches become so noisy? Quakers aside, it seems the church has shouted down its early traditions of silence and quiet meditation Mark Vernon guardian.co.uk, Friday 22 June 2012  Silent meditation is part … Continue reading →

Friday, 22 June 2012 Iain McLean and Scot Peterson have written at Politics in Spires about Same-Sex Civil Marriage and the Established Religious Lobby: Providing the Government with Good Information? On Tuesday 12 June, two days before the end of the consultation by the Government Equalities … Continue reading →