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| Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City has denounced a recent Mexican Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of a same-sex marriage law in the nation’s capital as an “abberant judgment”. The Church “cannot stop calling evil, ‘evil’,” he said in a statement read after his August 8 homily in the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral. | |
| Church | The Universe, Sunday August 22, 2010 |
| The average age of Church of England congregations is 14 years older than the national average. In England 34 per cent of adults (16 and over) have never had a significant connection with any church. Another 31 per cent used to have a connection but don’t any more. The vast proportion of children and teenagers has never had a connection to church. So church needs to connect with them. | |
| Church | The Church Of England Newspaper - September 3rd 2010 |
| Bishop of Manchester Nigel McCulloch claims: “Nearly 10 per cent of church buildings are a crippling and unnecessary drain on congregations.” | |
| Church | The Church Of England Newspaper - September 3rd 2010 |
| Catholics in Britain are being asked to pay between £10 and £25 to attend Masses and Pope Benedict XVI’s other public appearances during his four-day visit in September. The donations, described as ‘pilgrim contributions’ by the Church, are needed to help to defray costs up to £20 million… Each pilgrim will be given a ‘pilgrim pack’ containing their ‘pilgrim passport’, a commemorative CD and a ‘how to keep in touch postcard’. | |
| Church | ‘Salvationist’ (The Times) – August 14, 2010 |
| Sunday has disappeared into the “greyness” of the rest of the week, according to a northern diocesan bishop. As a result not only churchgoers are suffering but the rest of society, says Bishop of Chester Peter Forster. | |
| Church | ‘Church of England Newspaper’ – July 30, 2010 |
| Legislation to see women bishops in the Church of England yesterday passed a key hurdle in spite of fears of a walkout by traditionalists. Members of the Church’s national assembly, the General Synod, rejected calls for further delay in the progress of a draft law, paving the way for women to be made bishops without safeguards demanded by objectors. The legislation, if given approval by a majority of diocesan synods, would return to the General Synod in 2012 for further drafting and final approval. | |
| Church | ‘The Sentinel’ – July 13, 2010 |
| Thousands of people are preparing to visit more than 10,000 churches this summer as part of Ride and Stride, one of several heritage projects designed to preserve churches and reach non-Christians. In this sponsored event, more than 13,000 people will walk or cycle between more than 10,000 churches. Held annually since 1981, Ride and Stride includes people of all ages; the oldest participant last year was 101 years old, while the youngest was still in a pushchair. | |
| Church | ‘Christianity’ – August 2010 |
| Divorced clergy are to be allowed to become Church of England bishops for the first time in a move which has been condemned by traditionalists. Reporting on the issue in the The Sunday Telegraph, Jonathan Wynne-Jones wrote: ‘Critics described the change in Church rules as “utterly unacceptable” and warned it would undermine the biblical teaching that marriage is for life.’ | |
| Church | Families First – July/August 2010 |
| The Methodist Church has become the first major denomination in Britain to launch its own application for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The new app will allow users to view Bible studies and daily prayers. It is hoped it might appeal to both believers and those who might be more cautious about attending Church. | |
| Church | Youthwork – July 2010 |
| Church attendance is likely to fall further in the next two decades, according to a leading researcher. Former head of Christian Research Peter Brierley told Christians at the Pentecost Festival that all denominations except Pentecostals would decline. Church of England attendance is set to fall furthest. Dr Brierley said that church attendance has fallen from 3.5 million in 2000 to only 2.9 million today, and if present trends continued it would be 2.3 million by 2020. | |
| Church | The Salvationist, 12 June 2010 |
| The Archbishop of York baptised 11 Christians from different denominations on Easter Saturday. They were baptised outside the West End of York Minster by being totally immersed in a large tank of water. Before the baptisms, singers entertained the crowds, and afterwards there was a presentation from Teen Challenge, a group that works to help young people with drug and alcohol addictions. Young people, who had completed the Teen Challenge programme, shared their message of hope through music, video and their life stories. The service of baptism was organised by One Voice York, a network of Christian churches and leaders of different denominations working together across the city, | |
| Church | The Church Of England Newspaper, Friday, June 11, 2010 |
| New funeral practices – among them the absence of a body and calling the service a “celebration” of the dead person’s life – should be laid to rest, according to a northern bishop. Bus pass holder Peter Forster, the Bishop of Chester, says that is “to go to a funeral only to find that the cremation or burial has taken place earlier in the day, and the funeral has become a celebration of the deceased’s life.” This, he says, “jars”. | |
| Church | The Church Of England Newspaper, Friday, June 4, 2010 |
| The visit of Pope Benedict to the United Kingdom in September is remarkably historic. It is the first ever state visit by a Pope; the first ever beatification to take place in this country; Cardinal Newman is the first English ‘confessor of the faith’ to be beatified in more than 600 years. | |
| Church | The Universe, Sunday May 23, 2010 |
| “We see in a really terrifying way today that the greatest persecution of the Church does not come from enemies outside the Church, it is born of the sin of the Church,” Pope Benedict told journalists on the flight from Rome to Portugal on Tuesday. | |
| Church | The Universe, Sunday May 16, 2010 |
| Banks that abuse the social contact and put short-term greed above long-term social and economic stability should lose their licences, the Archbishop of Armagh told the opening session of the Church of Ireland’s General Synod last week. Meeting at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin on May 6, Dr Alan Harper called for stricter regulation and supervision of the financial industry and for a return to probity and morality and banking. He warned that Britain and Ireland’s high street banks had become “morally compromised by association with the culture of investment banking”. | |
| Church | The Church Of England Newspaper, Friday, May 14, 2010 |
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