Catholic leaders cautious about Anglican report on divisions
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OXFORD, England (CNS) Catholic leaders have reacted cautiously to a major Anglican Communion report that establishes guidelines for tackling controversial issues such as blessing same-sex unions and ordaining ...
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The Episcopal bishop at the center of the Anglican Communion&#39;s global battle over homosexuality said that at first he was stunned by a church report issued on Monday recommending a moratorium
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Conservatives and liberals locked horns  over homosexuality at a Church of England synod on Wednesday as  the worldwide Anglican communion faced the grim prospect of  schism.
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John Danforth, an Episcopal priest and former U.S. senator, warned Thursday that the church risked irrelevancy by focusing on divisive issues such as gay clergy and same-gender couples.
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Can the Archbishop of Canterbury lead his flock back from the brink of a rancorous schism over homosexuality?
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania -- Leaders of the world's 77 million Anglicans opened a crucial meeting yesterday as the church struggles to reconcile Scripture and homosexuality, with the American wing coming under increasing pressure to reconsider its liberal stance on gays.
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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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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania -- Seven conservative Anglican leaders refused to take Holy Communion with the head of the US branch of the church, who supports ordaining gays and blessing same-sex unions, as the fellowship struggles to avert a split.
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By Cathy Lynn Grossman  Tensions between the worldwide Anglican Communion and its liberal U.S. branch, the Episcopal Church, continued Tuesday as both sides fell to arguing over the requirements listed in documents released by the top bishops of the 77-million-member Communion.
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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said Friday he hoped to avoid a split within the global Anglican communion following crisis talks with the US church over its liberal stance on homosexuality.
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A report criticizing the US Episcopal Church&#39;s consecration of a gay bishop has drawn mixed feelings among some Episcopal churches in Lower Bucks.
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A panel set up to resolve the Anglican Communion&#39;s divisions over homosexuality will chart a middle course in its long-awaited report, British newspapers have said.
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Cautious optimism greets church report that offers road to reconciliation after US wing approved a gay bishop. By Jane Lampman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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LONDON - Advocates on both sides of the Anglican battle over homosexuality registered their unhappiness yesterday with the attempt by US bishops to keep their place in the global communion. Supporters of gay clergy accused American Episcopal bishops of caving in to pressure from conservatives, while traditionalists criticized what they said was a cleverly worded declaration of defiance. Episcopal bishops ...
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U.S. Episcopal bishops began a conference on Thursday expected to be dominated by a schism over gay clergy and same-sex unions that threatens to split the global Anglican church.
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An Anglican panel studying the consecration of an openly gay bishop in the U.S. Episcopal Church failed to give American conservatives what they sought Monday: punishment for church leaders and quick recognition for the network of dissenting congregations.
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By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY  DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - Leaders of the world's 77 million Anglicans spent Thursday locked in discussion about the church's American wing, whose leader is under increasing pressure to reconsider her support for ordaining gays and blessing same-sex couples.