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...trigger Tuesday on the long-anticipated departure of the U.S.-based Episcopal Church from full participation in its global brotherhood - although the bullet could take several years to reach its mark. Episcopalians are a numerically small (2.3 million) but fiscally significant part of Williams' 77 million-member Anglican Communion. The possible breaking off of the U.S. church from the Communion - and the fissioning of the American church that would likely accompany it - would probably result in mourning for a deep historical and spiritual bond, not to mention acrimonious squabbles over money and property...
ELECTED. Katharine Jefferts Schori, 52, theologically liberal Episcopal bishop of Nevada; as Presiding Bishop of the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church of the U.S.A., becoming the first woman to lead a province of the global Anglican Communion; in Columbus, Ohio. Citing her support of the 2003 consecration of openly gay New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson, conservatives predicted she would further alienate the U.S. church--which 30 years ago made history by ordaining women--from Anglicanism's more traditional branches...
...Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof." THE CONGREGATION, in a new translation of the Catholic Mass approved by U.S. bishops. This pre-Communion prayer is closer to its Latin original than the current "Lord, I am not worthy to receive...
...evenings when the mood is right and the family lingers, caught up in an idea or an argument explored in a shared safe place where no one is stupid or shy or ashamed, you get a glimpse of the power of this habit and why social scientists say such communion acts as a kind of vaccine, protecting kids from all manner of harm...
...trip as a Cardinal, was asked by journalists on the plane how he felt about visiting Auschwitz "as a German." The Pope responded: "I am above all a Catholic. I must say that this is the most important point." Nationalities, he said, can help fulfill the "togetherness of the communion of the Catholic Church." After his election last April, Benedict said he saw a "providential design" in a Polish pope being succeeded by a German one. "Both popes in their youth - both on different sides and in different situations - were forced to experience the barbarity of the Second World...