May 1, 2005 Council advised to decline primates' call

As the church's governing council prepares to meet this month to consider a weighty request from primates of the Anglican Communion, a national church committee has recommended that the Anglican Church of Canada decline the...

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May 1, 2005 Primate acknowledges schism

The Anglican Communion is already in schism. That stark declaration was made by Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, in the weeks following the meeting of primates in Northern...

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May 1, 2005 ECUSA to bow out of meeting

The Episcopal Church of the United States (ECUSA) has agreed to withdraw temporarily its members from the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), but attend the international group's meeting in June in Nottingham, England as...

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May 1, 2005 Pope recalled as 'prayerful friend' of Anglicans

Anglicans around the world joined Roman Catholics in mourning the death and remembering the legacy of Pope John Paul II who died April 2 after a long struggle with numerous illnesses, including Parkinson's disease. The Pope, who...

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May 1, 2005 Anglican women push for stronger presence

Forty-one women from 27 Anglican provinces have called on the Anglican Consultative Council to implement its goal of 30 per cent representation of women in decision-making bodies at all levels of the Anglican Communion, and to...

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April 1, 2005 Primates call for breathing space

Asking the Canadian and American churches to "voluntarily withdraw" from the Anglican Consultative Council for at least three years averted a much-feared split within the Anglican Communion last February but the crisis over...

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April 1, 2005 Groups weigh in on meaning of request

The primates' move to have Anglican churches in the United States and Canada suspended from the Anglican Consultative Council met with a wide variety of interpretations. Liberals on the homosexuality issue generally were...

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April 1, 2005 Canterbury snubs North Americans

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has rejected an invitation to attend a joint meeting in April of U.S. and Canadian bishops later this month in a move that the Canadian primate, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, said is...

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April 1, 2005 The Anglican Consultative Council at a glance

The Anglican Consultative Council was established in 1969 after the 1968 Lambeth Conference (a once-per-decade international meeting of bishops) decided the church needed a more representative body that could meet more...

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March 1, 2005 Hutchison brings Canadian response to Windsor Report to global primates

Archbishop Andrew Hutchison has expressed hope that the primates' meeting, which he was scheduled to attend in Belfast Feb. 20-26, would have a "moderating influence" on the current debate over the issue of homosexuality, which...

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