 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Bishop explains ousting of gay Episcopal bishop
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Bishop William Swing of the Episcopal
Church's Diocese of California says he suspended a retired Episcopal
bishop of Utah from clergy functions because he broke Bishop Swing's
directive when he spoke publicly about entering a same-sex marriage.
"I said, don't use the word 'marriage,' and don't talk to the
press," Bishop Swing recalled Monday. He suspended Bishop Otis
Charles when the San Francisco Chronicle published Bishop Charles'
account of the April wedding to...
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3 bishops, 2 cities, 1 muddle.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Byline: David C. Steinmetz In 2003 the General Convention of the Episcopal Church voted to allow the blessing of same-sex unions. It did not authorize the solemnization of same-sex marriages. As far as the official teaching of the Episcopal Church is concerned, marriage is still an institution
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Episcopal bishop discloses he is gay
The Boston Globe
; ... that he is homosexual. He is the first bishop of a mainline denomination to publicly disclose he is gay, reported the Episcopal News Service in New York. He discussed his sexual orientation in a letter to other bishops just before the annual meeting of the House ...
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40 days of penance, fasting and prayer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 02-07-2008 40 days of penance, fasting and prayer Date: 02-07-2008, Thursday Section: LOCAL Edtion: All Bergen Editions Bishop Charles McDonnell giving ashes at Holy Trinity Church in Hackensack for Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of Lent, a period of penance
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Funerals Today
Charleston Gazette
; Adkins, Lola 11 a.m., Handley Funeral Home, Hamlin. Arnold, Bishop Charles . 2 p.m., Curry Funeral Home, Alum Creek. Barnett, Fred 1 p.m., Smathers Funeral Chapel, Rainelle. Blethen, Opal M. 11 a.m., Handley Funeral Home, Danville.
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Denver gets archbishop
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; The pope on Tuesday appointed Bishop Charles J. Chaput, 52, of Rapid City, S.D., archbishop of Denver. He succeeds Archbishop James Francis Stafford, who moved to Rome to take a position at the Vatican.
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