Anglican Church in America (TAC) Elects Suffragan Bishop

News Release February 8, 2012

The Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church in America, the Most Rev. Brian Marsh, has announced that the Rev. John Vaughan was unanimously elected Bishop Suffragan at the annual synod of the Diocese of the Eastern United States . The synod was held at St. Barnabas Church in Picayune, Mississippi on January 18-20.

Father Vaughn was born on February 22nd 1957, in Dublin Pike, White’s Cross, County Cork Ireland and is the fifth of ten children born to John Vaughan and Eileen McCarthy. He received his Primary education at Balckpool Boys National School (Brockelsbey  Street Academy ) and his High School Education at the School of Commerce In Cork City Ireland.

After High School in 1974 Fr. Vaughn enlisted in the Irish Army where he served for three years as an infantry man and had training as a medical orderly. Upon completion of military service, Fr. Vaughan worked at St. Stephen’s Hospital in Sarsfield’s Court Cork. He began his studies for the priesthood in 1979 at St. John’s College Seminary in Waterford Ireland.

Fr. Vaughan has diplomas in Philosophy and in Theology from St. John’s College as well as a Degree in Theology from St, Patrick’s Pontifical University in Maynooth Ireland .

In 1985 Fr. Vaughan was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood at St. Michael’s Church Upper Glanmire County Cork Ireland. Shortly after Ordination he left Ireland and relocated to the United States to serve the people of the archdiocese of Miami Florida.

In 1990 Fr. Vaughan took a leave of absence from the Roman Catholic Church and in 1994 Fr Vaughan transferred to the Episcopal Church where he ministered for ten years. In 2005 he transferred his qualifications to the Anglican Church in America where he served at St. Patrick’s Church in Port St. John, Florida until being appointed Vicar General of the Diocese of the Eastern United States in 2011.

He is a resident of Titusville, Florida and has one son. He will be consecrated Bishop at a special service planned for later this year after approval by the House of Bishops of the National Church.

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UPDATE:

While I do not always see ‘eye to eye’ with Fr Anthony Chadwick (on TAC matters), I however find myself agreeing with him here:

This one – Anglican Church in America (TAC) Elects Suffragan Bishop – is straight out of Virtue Online, but seems to ring true. As for the choice of Suffragan Bishop, I wonder how Anglican a cradle Roman Catholic priest is going to be. Is this a sign of things to come in the New TAC?

Choosing a former Roman Catholic priest seems to be direct provocation both to the Ordinariate-bound in the US and Archbishop Hepworth. My big question is why the ACA needs another bishop, considering its decimated numbers and intention to unite with the other Continuing Churches in America.

The bishop-elect is a cradle Roman Catholic of Irish origin. His year of birth makes him 55 years old. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1985, joined the Episcopal Church in 1994 and moved to the ACA in 2005. So, a cradle Roman Catholic with less than seven years as a member of the ACA gets elected for the Episcopate!

Let and let live! – and all that. Many of us could say we don’t care, but it is these people who want to waste no time in getting rid of Archbishop Hepworth for the purposes of the New TAC. What’s that going to be like? I shudder to think.

This does not bode well… at all.

 

EWTN Sues US Government

Over contraception mandate.

Catholic media network EWTN sued the federal government Feb. 9, challenging the Obama administration’s rule requiring many religious ministries to subsidize contraception and sterilization in their health plans.

“We had no other option but to take this to the courts,” EWTN President and CEO Michael Warsaw said in an announcement about the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday. “There is no question that this mandate violates our First Amendment rights.”

“Under the HHS mandate, EWTN is being forced by the government to make a choice,” Warsaw explained. “Either we provide employees coverage for contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs and violate our conscience or offer our employees and their families no health insurance coverage at all. Neither of those choices is acceptable.”

Senior attorneys at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed the suit on behalf of the media network, against the Department of Health and Human Services, department secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and other government agencies involved with the federal contraception mandate…

Read the rest here.

EWTN is providing further information about the mandate and its lawsuit at www.ewtn.com/hhsmandate.

 

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South African Bishops Grieve 1 Million ‘Lost Children’ after 15 Years of Legalized Abortion

Fifteen years have come and gone since abortion was rammed through in South African in the name of ‘reproductive rights.’ Catholic bishops in the region have expressed regret at the loss of an estimated one million children who were stripped of “the most fundamental of rights, the right to life.”

“We remember those one million babies,” said Archbishop Buti Tlhagale on behalf of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference that convened at the end of January. The Conference is comprised of Catholic Bishops from Botswana, South Africa, and Swaziland.

In November of 1996, South Africa enacted the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act that allowed “every woman the right to choose whether to have an early, safe and legal termination of pregnancy according to her individual beliefs.”

The South African government at this time interpreted their constitution to “protect the right of persons to make decisions concerning reproduction and to security in and control over their bodies.”

The government stated in the Act that it was their “belief” that the “termination of pregnancy is not a form of contraception or population control.”

Archbishop Buti Tlhagale stated what he called the “clear and unambiguous” position of the Catholic Church on abortion.

“Each unborn child is created by God, ‘knit together in (its) mother’s womb’ (Ps 139.13). That unborn child is a human being with a human life that must be protected. He or she has a right to life, a right that must be respected by the mother and protected by the state.”

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