Church 'in need of women priests'
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The Church of England would struggle in the future without women priests, researchers say.
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The Greek Orthodox church begins a drive to help young men who want to become priests find a spouse ready to accept their austere lifestyle.
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The number of men and women belonging to religious orders worldwide continues to decline sharply, but there has been an increase in priests assigned to dioceses, the Vatican said.
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Newly-qualified women doctors outnumber their male counterparts by almost three to two, a survey suggests.
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A senior Anglican Church commission Monday urged US church leaders to apologize for consecrating a gay priest as bishop and called for a moratorium on the blessing of same-sex marriages.
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In a letter to the communion&#39;s leaders dated November 28, the Archbishop of Canterbury said the controversy had led many homosexual people, including those who are celibate, to &quot;feel that there is no good news for them in the church&quot;.
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TORONTO (CP) - The United Church of Canada is pouring cold water on unionizing efforts by a group of stressed-out clergy.
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Pope John Paul II asks US bishops to give more guidance to Catholic priests, to avoid a repetition of the child sex abuse scandal.
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Pope Benedict and the Archbishop of Canterbury committed their Churches to the quest for unity on Thursday but acknowledged that issues such as women priests and gay bishops in the Anglican Church were obstacles.
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Roman Catholic dioceses nationwide have taught more than 6 million children to protect themselves from sexual predators and have conducted 1.6 million background checks on workers in response to the clergy sex abuse crisis, according to a new report.
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Nearly three decades after Washington area faith leaders founded a movement for affordable housing, there is a new push -- particularly in the District -- to revive the effort and get the clergy to see housing as an urgent mission field.
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Â· Archbishops to draw up historic covenantÂ· Conservatives see chance to crack down on dissent
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As seminary enrollment has sagged, Chicago's Catholic Church is trying to recruit priests who reflect the diversity of their flock
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Just 7 percent of the population attend services regularly. But visits to churches are up sharply.
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Serious obstacles impede closer ties between Roman Catholics and Anglicans, Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said as they reflected over issues such as women and gays in the priesthood.
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Victims in child abuse cases involving Church of England officials call for fresh inquiries into possible similar cases.
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Black and Asian clergy members are unlikely to reach high office in the Church of England and minorities are sometimes marginalized in parish churches, an internal review will show, a newspaper reported Sunday.