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Thus far the schism is loud but small: the larger parishes are remaining loyal. But there is potential for dramatic skirmishes in the next year or two, especially if courts rule that departing parishes can retain their property. As if to remind the bishops of the threat, a parish in nearby West Palm Beach became the 18th to quit the denomination. It will join the emerging "Anglican Church of North America," which was proclaimed last month at an emotional rally of 1,750 traditionalists in St. Louis. Besides women priests, the group protests modernization of the church's liturgy...
Another vexing issue has been widening the schism: homosexual priests. In January, New York's liberal Bishop Paul Moore ordained Ellen Barrett, a lesbian, to the priesthood (TIME, Jan. 24), thereby outraging many lay Episcopalians. In a carefully worded statement, the bishops distinguished between a priesthood candidate with a "dominant homosexual orientation" and an "advocating and/or practicing" homosexual. In the latter case, the bishops said, their "present understanding" of theology makes ordination "impossible...
...after only 161 days in office. The11th century Pope Benedict IX resigned once or twice (historians disagree) and Pope Gregory XII renounced the chair in 1415 as part of an effort to heal the Great Western Schism...
While Tietjen and his friends work on the remaining volumes, they are operating a "Seminary in Exile" and forming denomination No. 736, a schism from the left of the Missouri Synod known as the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. That is the problem with Piep-korn's goal of listing everyone. The job never ends...
...difficult to tell how many Catholics would follow Lefebvre into schism. His hard-core base may be only a few thousand people, but there are large numbers of Roman Catholics upset by the innovations since Vatican II. Some Vatican sources think Lefebvre might have a potential flock of 50,000 or 60,000, centered in France, Germany and England. That could produce the biggest rupture since the Old Catholics broke with Rome over the First Vatican Council's decree on the authority and infallibility of the Pope...