Towleroad (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Anglican websites and news media in England are reporting that secret talks were held in York, England over the weekend by "a handful of Pope Benedict XVI's most trusted advisers" and senior Anglican bishops who refused to include the Archbishop...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Senior Church of England bishops have held secret talks with Vatican officials to discuss the crisis in the Anglican communion over gays and women bishops.
Saint Mary Magdalen, Brighton, UK (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
From the Telegraph Senior Church of England bishops have held secret talks with Vatican officials to discuss the crisis in the Anglican communion over gays and women bishops. They met senior advisers of the Pope in an attempt to build closer ties with the Roman Catholic Church, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was not told of the talks and the disclosure...
VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
LONDON: Anglican bishops in secret Vatican summit By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent The Telegraph News http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2254269/Anglican-bishops-in-secret-Vatican-summit.html 5/7/2008 Senior Church of England bishops have held secret talks with Vatican officials to discuss the crisis in the Anglican communion over gays and women bishops. They met senior...
Cranmer (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
So says The Sunday Telegraph , without the inverted commas around ‘secret’, but it cannot be much of a secret if the media are able to broadcast it to the world. In fact, the only person who appears to be oblivious to the meeting is the Archbishop of Canterbury, but Cranmer can fully understand why Anglo-Catholic bishops might wish to keep secrets from him as they met with ‘senior advisers of the...
PAXALLES (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
"Anglican bishops in secret Vatican summit" from UK Telegraph reports that conservative Anglican bishops, unhappy with the split in the church over issues of gays and women clergy, have gone behind the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' back to consult...
Standing on My Head (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Here's another fascinating news story to come out of England. The Church of England General Synod is meeting at this time. Tomorrow they debate women's ordination to the Episcopate. Monday they vote. The Daily Telegraph reveals here that a group of senior Church of England bishops has gone to the Vatican to discuss the crisis with the Catholic Church leaders. The timing of this is, of course, very...
Of course, I could be wrong... (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
From THE TELEGRAPH : Senior Church of England bishops have held secret talks with Vatican officials to discuss the crisis in the Anglican communion over gays and women bishops. They met senior advisers of the Pope in an attempt to build closer ties with the Roman Catholic Church. The Grand Tufti was not told of the talks and the disclosure will be a fresh blow to his efforts to prevent a major split...
A Bama Blog (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
It's been almost 450 years since the Church of England made its final break from Roman Catholicism during the reign of Elizabeth I. Now, alarmed at the direction their own Church has taken in recent years, it appears that significant numbers of conservative, "high church" Anglicans are seriously considering reunion with Rome: (London Telegraph) Senior Church of England bishops have held secret talks...
The Black Kettle (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Telegraph [UK]: Senior Church of England bishops have held secret talks with Vatican officials to discuss the crisis in the Anglican communion over gays and women bishops. They met senior advisers of the Pope in an attempt to build closer ties with the Roman Catholic Church, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was not told of the talks and the disclosure...
Threshing Grain (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Anglican bishops in secret Vatican summit Anglican Church may create 'super bishops' to avoid splitting Archbishop hits back at the evangelical rebels 'Super bishops' plan to stop schism Church schism widens over women bishops Rowan Williams stands tall And it 'all' comes down to the proverbial question.... In a sermon charged with emotion and feeling, but delivered with poise and unflinching stoicism,...
Forest Murmurs (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
It`s interesting to see this story in the Telegraph about a conversation between the Vatican (the CDF) and senior Anglican bishops over what help they could be given in the face of their current difficulties. From what is reported here from bishop Kieran Conry it looks as if Rome might be willing to offer a more imaginative solution than as offered over the ordination of Anglican women priests. The...
What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
A reader sent a tip about this story in The Telegraph . Anglican bishops in secret Vatican summit By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent Senior Church of England bishops have held secret talks with Vatican officials to discuss the crisis in the Anglican communion over gays and women bishops. They met senior advisers of the Pope in an attempt to build closer ties with the Roman Catholic...
