Ruth Gledhill reported in The Times on Monday on the proposal to transfer the funds they give to cathedrals and bishops to the dioceses, Cathedrals fear £30m loss of funding. On Tuesday she reports on the CofE Communications story, Church begins taking the tabloids that was in last week’s Church Times.
The Manchester Evening News had Gay storm bishop to go on leave about Peter Forster’s long-scheduled sabbatical. Not news.
Meanwhile, Rowan Williams was off to Istanbul, where Archbishop to Visit Bomb Blast Synagogues according to PA via the Scotsman.
The Telegraph reports on the Mothers Union in England, Mothers’ Union tells newly-weds to take Aids test.
Some international news:
The Russian Orthodox Church has issued this statement about Gene Robinson, as reported widely elsewhere, for example here Episcopal’s gay bishop completely unorthodox.
The Jamaica Observer headline on Monday was West Indian Anglican Church rejects gay bishop which says the Anglican Church in the West Indies will not break away from ECUSA at this time, opting instead to await the findings of a commission set up by the Archbishop of Canterbury…
I failed to report that on Sunday the Philadelphia Inquirer said 2 parishes opposed to gay bishop seek Anglican shepherds.
In Africa, Scientists Plan Re-Ignites Debate On Lab Babies reports on Anglican and other religious opposition there to In Vitro Fertilisation and Embryo Transfer technology.