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- Nov 20, 2019
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Removal of pastor feeds perceptions of draconian authority
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- Jan 29, 2017
By removing a dedicated pastor at an Anglican Use parish, Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio has not only engaged in a striking overreach, but he’s fed perceptions that Catholic prelates are inflexible, authoritarian and aggressively assertive.
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Another bishop says chastity key to Communion debate
- Church in the US
- Jan 17, 2017
Bishop Steven Lopes of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Peter, for ex-Anglicans, has issued a pastoral letter on ‘Amoris Laetitia’ holding that divorced and civilly remarried Catholics may receive Communion only if they commit to “complete chastity.”
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Anglican appointment reveals continuity between Pope Francis and Benedict
- Church
- Nov 25, 2015
At the level of style, Pope Francis is obviously a somewhat jarring contrast with his predecessor, emeritus Pope Benedict XVI. Francis generally comes off as a warm Latin populist, Benedict more a cool German intellectual. Leaders, however, promote either continuity or rupture not primarily at the level of style but
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Vatican appoints a new bishop to lead breakaway US Anglicans
- Church
- Nov 25, 2015
Pope Francis has given a group of breakaway North American Anglicans who joined the Catholic Church en masse a new leader, naming the first bishop to lead the small but growing movement within US Catholicism. The Rev. Steven Lopes, a San Francisco priest who has worked in the Vatican’s Congregation for
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