Presiding Bishop on recent departures

The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, speaks on how the church should react to recent votes by dioceses to leace teh Episcoapl Church. She spoke Nov. 7 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Venice, Fla.

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[txsquares]

actually, 4 dioceses HAVE left the Episcopal Church.

[jimdela]

No, they really haven't. Individuals may leave congregations and the denomination, but the diocese as an entity remains intact with the people who remain. That's like saying the Beatles stopped being the Beatles when Pete Best left.

[isaakios]

"We have a larger mission than necessarily finding a common mind about particular things in the Church." In other words, that train has sailed, those in power are running a corpse-like, albeit super-rich, institution that has been all but gutted of anyone remaining faithful to the most basic tenets of Christianity as it has existed in any historical sense of the word. "Embracing a variety of viewpoints..." Yikes.

[Menechem]

The argument was not to do with whether or not non Jews could be part of the church,rather if they needed to observe the statutes & ordinates my ancestors could not even follow!Read the Jerusalem Council(since you do not know Scripture,this can be found in Ac15)!Btw,congregations have left the Episcopal,and the Anglican (here in Canada)church.Why do you think we have the Anglican Use of the Roman Rite,and the ANC,CEC,and so forth.Women like you should not be preaching!You're not a Junia(Rom.16)!

[englishteach26]

@pimaggot: That would be said if that were true.

[englishteach26]

@LawdHelp: Actually, why should those no no longer believe the Christian faith remain with a Christian denomination? Why don't they leave, call themselves 'theists' or something, and create their own Awareness Centers and such? Why do they choose to hang on to the Episcopal faith when they do not believe in any of the pre-2003 Episcopal teachings? Only one reason: a lust for power.

[englishteach26]

@jimdela: No matter how many times you and every other New York headquarters loyalist quote this, it is not true. There is nothing in the Episcopal constitution that says a diocese cannot leave the General Convention, which is why Jefferts-Schori had to create a fake diocese in each case in order to sue the real dioceses so she would not be in violation of the constitution of the General Convention. And no one has left the denomination...they are realigned with other General Conventions.

[saintben2008]

she got it exactly right. i am catholic, but i really regret that i did not choose the episcopal church.

[JCBEDIA]

This is sad, Her Excellency is misinforming and misleading the faithful. Congregations have left the Anglican and Episcopalian churches contrary to her claim. Some of these congregations became Roman Catholics.

[jtimjsc]

I for one ( and i know of many) have left the RC Church for the Episcopal. I find rest in what said and done here. A Catholic Church that is truely universal, sensible, and does its job as an welcoming community in the body of Christ. The language of those whose who hate such moderation are truely tiresome and weary . the RC will either take this route or that of extremism (easier i suppose) .

[PInk77W1]

5 episcopal bishops became catholic at one time recently!!!!!

ROME WILL WIN

[BLESSUSON]

Huh?