Topic: Rowan Williams

Like most Christians, I don't pay attention to missives from church leaders. This week, however, dueling pastoral letters issued for Pentecost from Rowan Williams, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, and Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, caught my ...

Church rejects Anglican pressure over gay rights

PARIS (Reuters) - The top Episcopal bishop in the United States, under pressure from the Anglican Communion for allowing homosexual bishops, has said plans to discipline it in the worldwide denomination violated Anglican traditions.Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said the proposal by ...

Latest Anglican peace bid meets with skepticism

LONDON (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Canterbury's latest proposal to mediate a gay rights dispute splitting the worldwide Anglican Communion seems to be falling on deaf ears in the opposing camps he is trying to discipline.Archbishop Rowan Williams, spiritual head of the ...

Sex abuse scandal casts shadow over Easter

Catholic and Anglican leaders in Britain and Ireland used their Easter Sunday sermons to try to heal the wounds from a rift between the churches over the Irish clerical child abuse scandal.Churchmen on both sides of the Irish Sea spoke of the ...

Sex abuse spat casts clouds in churches over Easter

Catholic and Anglican leaders in Britain and Ireland used their Easter Sunday sermons to try to heal the wounds from a rift between the churches over the Irish clerical child abuse scandal.Churchmen on both sides of the Irish Sea spoke of the ...

Anglican leader regrets Irish Catholics comments

The leader of the world's Anglicans expressed "deep sorrow and regret" for saying the Catholic Church in Ireland was "losing all credibility" over the paedophile priests scandal.Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams telephoned Diarmuid Martin, the Archbishop of Dublin and one of Ireland's ...
Archbishop of Canterbury says Irish church has lost 'all credibility' over sex abuse scandalThe Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has lost all credibility because of its mishandling of abuse by priests, the leader of the Anglican church said in remarks released Saturday. ...
The leader of the world's Anglicans expressed "deep sorrow and regret" on Saturday for saying the Catholic Church in Ireland was "losing all credibility" over the paedophile priests scandal.Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams telephoned Diarmuid Martin, the Archbishop of Dublin and one ...
The leader of the world's Anglicans expressed "deep sorrow and regret" on Saturday for saying the Catholic Church in Ireland was "losing all credibility" over the clerical child abuse scandal.Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams apologised to Diarmuid Martin, the Archbishop of Dublin ...
Anglican and Irish Catholic leaders were at loggerheads Easter Saturday over claims that the Catholic Church in Ireland was "losing all credibility" over the clerical child abuse scandal.Diarmuid Martin, the Archbishop of Dublin, said he was "stunned" by the comments from Rowan ...