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Officials in The Episcopal Church are reacting to the United States Supreme Court opting to not reverse a decision granting a breakaway diocese $100 million in church properties.
In a list of orders released Monday, the Supreme Court declined, without comment, to hear the combined cases of
All Saints’ Episcopal Church v. Diocese of Fort Worth and
The Episcopal Church et al. v. Diocese of Fort Worth.
As a result, an earlier decision from the Texas Supreme Court in favor of the breakaway Anglican diocese will be allowed to stand, with a lower court judge tasked with implementing it.
February 27, 2021 3:41 am
I don’t see much stated desire on the part of either the Episcopal Church or the ACNA – or any of the Continuing Anglican churches – for much reconciliation, and I regret that. The Episcopal Church has full communion and shared ministry agreements with a number of churches including the Philippine Independent Church, the Mar Thoma Church, the ELCA, the Moravian Church, and a proposed agreement with the United Methodist Church. But churches of the Anglican tradition in the United States remain divided. These churches agree on the four points of the Chicago – Lambeth Quadrilateral, though they do differ on the Biblical teachings about some questions of moral theology. But if Anglican churches can be in dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, what prevents us from dialogue with churches of common Anglican heritage? When the Diocese of Fort Worth rejected the authority of the General Convention parishes that c
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In voting to support the bill, Cory is a lot like her party, but a little less like her closest GOP neighbors. Counting House votes from 16 legislative districts running along North Dakota’s urban border with Minnesota stretching from Grand Forks to Fargo to Wahpeton the bill was defeated 21-11. Nine of those votes against the bill were Republicans and those nine make up the majority of GOP representatives statewide who broke with their party and opposed HB 1298.
That gap highlights the political divide between North Dakota’s deeply conservative rural regions and its more urban, eastern spine and it raises questions over the future of the party’s positions on social issues.