Episcopal report gets conflicting responses
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Different interpretations of the Bible have been at the heart of an ongoing dispute among the world&#39;s Anglican Christians over the place of gays and lesbians in their churches.
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A commission of the worldwide Anglican Communion issued a long-awaited report Monday which is critical of the Episcopal Church of the USA (ECUSA) for allowing an openly homosexual man, Gene Robinson, to become a bishop.
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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 the issues of gay clergy and same-sex unions.
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Conservative groups both praise and criticize Windsor report on human sexuality within the Anglican Communion. The long-awaited Windsor Report on the role of homosexuality in the Anglican Communion, drew both
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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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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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Leaders of the U.S. Episcopal Church face a wrenching decision in the next few days on whether to issue a clear-cut ban on allowing people in gay relationships to be bishops and on blessing same-sex unions.
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Anglican leaders met on Friday to consider a report about the U.S. church's response to criticism of its backing of gay clergy and same sex unions, in a row threatening to tear the church apart.
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An Anglican Church report issued this  week lays the groundwork for resolving a potential schism  between liberals and conservatives over homosexuality, the gay  U.S. bishop at the heart of the dispute said on Wednesday.
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The U.S. Episcopal Church has taken some steps in response to criticism of its backing for gay priests and same-sex unions, an archbishop said on Thursday, as Anglican leaders tried to avoid a formal split in the church over homosexuality.
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Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori says her church has been unfairly singled out for criticism because it is honest about consecrating gay bishops.
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LONDON  - An Anglican church commission sharply criticized the U.S. Episcopal Church on Monday for consecrating a gay bishop and called on the church to apologize and refrain from promoting any other clergy living in a same-sex union.
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The report released Monday by an Anglican church commission reinforces what spiritual leaders of Episcopal Church USA members in downstate Illinois have been saying for more than a year, they said.
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FRESNO, California  - A California diocese of the Episcopal Church on Saturday took a major step toward breaking with the U.S. church because of its position on issues including homosexuality, a move unseen since the U.S. Civil War.
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Description: Influential leaders of the Anglican Communion sharply criticize the US Episcopal Church for consecrating a gay bishop.
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An Anglican Church commission rebuked the Episcopal Church USA for ordaining a gay bishop and blessing same-sex unions.
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An Anglican Communion report released yesterday urged those involved in last year&#39;s consecration of an openly gay Episcopal Church bishop in New Hampshire to apologize