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44-1: March 2005 (9 articles) Issue 44 Number 1 - February/March 2005
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	1. The Anglican Mess - Scandel is the Problem We Anglicans are faced with one huge mess. The gay community has established a beachhead in the Anglican West and fights to expand it. The global South is furious and seeks to restrain and eliminate that beachhead. Those hoping to resolve difficulties and recover unity are calling for "flying bishops," parallel jurisdictions, and significant intrusions from Eames and Canterbury. But they are only inviting more chaos. The mess will only become messier....
	3. SIGNPOSTS: The Somewhere of His Presence - by Bishop David Chislett This is an abridged version of a sermon originally published in TCC around Easter 2001. We thought it deserved an encore, not only because it is a moving sermon, but because it was delivered by David Chislett, who was recently consecrated a bishop to serve in the Traditional Anglican Communion, with license also in an Anglican Communion diocese, Australia?s The Murray. Bishop Chislett, who also shepherds All Saints? Wickham Terrace, Brisbane, within the Anglican Church of Australia, preached this sermon in June 2000 at St. Mary of the Angels, Los Angeles, a parish of the Anglican Church in America, the TAC?s U.S. branch.
	4. News of the Weird IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH, the one that Florida resident Diane Duyser made and took a bite of before noticing what she decided was an image of the Virgin Mary staring back at her in crusty formation. That was in 1994, and Duyser said the sandwich never spoiled since the day she made it. Now, the sandwich?purchased on E-Bay by a Canadian casino, Goldenpalace.com, for a whopping $28,000?is about to go on tour, reports The Living Church. It will then be sold, and the proceeds used for charity, a casino spokesperson said.
	5. Special Report: Walking Together or Walking Apart ONE U.K. ORTHODOX LEADER pronounced it "more cosmetic than effective." And indeed, if the latest missive from Anglican Communion primates (provincial leaders) is read at face value, it comes off as (and still could prove to be) a weak response to the turmoil over authority and homosexuality stirred in the 77 million-member Communion by its North American churches. Yet the consensus seems to be that the primates wound up their tense meeting at the Dromantine Retreat and Conference Center near Newry, Northern Ireland, February 21-25 having produced a communiqu? that has had an impact that is greater than the sum of its parts. Paradoxically, the communiqu?, written in "gracious" Western style, may even be "cosmetic" as well as "effective."
	6. SIDEBAR: Quotations from Bishop Gene ECUSA?s practicing homosexual bishop, Gene Robinson, recently caused a stir by appearing to some to suggest that Jesus Christ might have been homosexual. Robinson has vehemently denied saying or implying any such thing.
	7. FOCUS: U.S., Australian Clerics Consecrated For Dual Ministry, As Some Deny Its Possibility - By IT WAS A SIGNAL EVENT, and the latest in a series of institutionally-unusual measures that faithful Anglican leaders have taken in response to liberal revisionism in some parts of the Anglican Communion. And already, the remarkable consecration rites that took place in Pennsylvania February 16 have been hailed in a few expected and unexpected circles, most notably in the Australian Parliament. At the same time, liberal church leaders and chancellors?and a fair number of conservatives?are insisting that the trans-jurisdictional episcopal ministry launched at Good Shepherd, Rosemont, will not hold up?and some have taken initial steps to see that it doesn?t. Unless and until liberal officials can find a way to permanently quash it, though, the reality seems to be that?as Episcopal journalist David Virtue wrote February 16?prominent traditional Anglican priests David Chislett of Australia and David Moyer of the U.S. "became bishops in the Continuing Church and the Anglican Communion in one evening."
	8. FOCUS - Part Two Ackerman Tapped As New FIF-NA President Promoting Catholicity As Part Of Canterbury Communion Bennison Gets Nod To Attempt Property Grab Canada: Two Conservative Parishes To Quit Buildings Fresh Air From Kansas Plains Bishop Settles With Departing Parish L.A. Diocese, Parishes Ordered Into Mediation Lee: A Change Of Heart Before Heart Bypass Virginia Bill Advancing Church Property Rights Blocked South Carolina Action Again Pits Conservative v. Conservative ECUSA Funding Down 12 Percent Proposals Would Make ECUSA Laity Subject To Trial Conservative Confabs Slated Anglican Sex Wars Round-up: More Wrangling And Realignment New Conflicts Emerge In Church of England Following Primates? Meeting Civil Wedding For Future Church of England "Supreme Governor" Church of England Moves Toward Women Bishops Lambeth 2008 Back In Canterbury Female Former Lutheran Pastor Debunks Women?s Ordination (Jennifer Ferrara Was Won Over By The Pope?s Theology Of The Body) ACA Diocese Takes To The Airwaves ACC Chaplain?s Book Explores Conversion And Faith In War After 30 Years, An Apology For Reporter Who Warned Of Cult ?LATE NEWS ? "Pope John Paul The Great" 1920-2005
	9. News Briefs Anglican World Briefs Anglican USA Briefs Of General Interest