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A dwindling, aging army of parishioners gathered in the sanctuary of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church yesterday, eager to give Bishop Leonard Blair a piece of their mind.
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The Episcopal bishop of New York fears that the Anglican Churchâs demands over gay issues could force the American church into a corner.
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Anglican church leaders and others demanding the U.S. Episcopal Church harden its stand on gay issues may be yielding to unwarranted impatience instead of waiting for divine guidance, the head of the U.S. church said on Wednesday.
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By FELICIA THOMAS-LYNN  The Rev. Joseph Jackson Jr. is on a crusade.  Standing amid the rubble and the thick stench permeating the air of New Orleans' lower ninth ward a year after Hurricane Katrina, the Milwaukee central city minister made a vow.
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The Episcopal Church&#039;s top policymaking body struggled Friday to balance Anglican demands to temporarily bar gays from becoming bishops with pleas from liberals against such a move.
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By Hurst Laviana, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 10--About 300 people rallied outside the Episcopal Social Services building Saturday as the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas offered his support for the imperiled charity.
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In a dramatic plea for understanding, Archbishop Sean P. O&#39;Malley yesterday described his effort to close parishes as &#39;&#39;personally repulsive to me,&quot; but
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While the city of Spokane is racing to get out of federal court, the local Catholic Church is plunging head-long in, and now the fate of the Spokane Diocese rests in the hands of a federal judge.
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The U.S. Episcopal Church is in the middle of a wrenching debate that could end with its departure from the worldwide Anglican Communion over disagreements about gay clergy and same-sex unions.
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In a direct challenge to the leadership of the U.S. Episcopal Church, an influential Anglican archbishop from Africa is exploring ways to allow American congregations upset over the election of a gay bishop to realign themselves under his jurisdiction.
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St. James the Great in Wellesley is the latest parish to join the growing list of churches staging vigils in a last-ditch attempt to keep the Archdiocese of Boston from shutting its doors.
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The Boston archdiocese is asking a panel of community leaders to review its ongoing reconfiguration, though the committee won't revisit the sometimes bitter parish closings that have already occurred.
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A Catholic bishop praises parishioners for their response to a priest at the centre of a sex abuse allegation.
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Parishioners in Newton planned to join the growing number of Catholic communities that have occupied their churches in protest of their planned closure, while such demonstrations continued at two other Boston-area parishes.
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Anglican leaders concluded their five-day meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, yesterday by issuing a demand that the U.S. Episcopal Church unequivocally stop blessing same-sex unions and consecrating any more gay bishops.
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A Catholic bishop is asked to explain his decision to keep a priest in his parish after a sex abuse allegation.
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Several leading liberal Episcopalians said yesterday that they would rather accept a schism than accede to a demand from leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion for what they view as an unconscionable rollback of the U.S. church's position on gay rights.