Sentences with phrase «over women bishops»

(Tana, I know there are all sorts of problems over women Bishops at the moment but 2 women curates are, to me, a sign of a healthy church.)

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It was, after all this, inevitable that when, recently, conversations took place over the possible Catholic response to the legalisation of women - bishops in the Church of England, they would be in Rome and not in Westminster.

It's facing serious strains over the ordination of women bishops and gay priests, and the Catholic Church has reached out to disaffected Anglicans, raising the possibility that conservatives could leave en masse.

«When I wrote to him last weekend to offer my prayers for his battle with prostate cancer, he replied with these words: «Wonderful that you over there will soon have women bishops.

Four bishops have already resigned in scandals involving homosexual activity, and a fifth, my friend James McCarthy, auxiliary bishop of New York, resigned over affairs with women.

Archbishop Rowan Williams, head of the world Anglican Communion, is trying to prevent schisms in the communion after clashes over homosexuality and women bishops.

How long will the Christians and people of the United States have to contemplate the incongruity of its government... as it supports with over a million dollars a day another government that represses, kills bishops, religious workers, children, men and women, violates human rights, closes itself to dialogue and obstructs the pastoral task of the churches?

In the Commons, MPs will be putting pressure on the Church of England over their decision to block women bishops.

Almost 30 % of life peers are now women and both the Leader of the House and the Opposition Leader are women, not to mention the arrival of women bishops and the first woman Black Rod in over 650 years.

Since polls have shown that over 90 % of Catholic women have used, or are using, contraception, it is difficult to understand who the Bishops are speaking for.