Daily Archives: July 24, 2012

Largest Church Denominations in the World

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Bible Press, out today: Catholicism – 1.2 billion Roman Catholic Church – 1,147 million[1] Roman Catholic Church (Latin Rite) – 1,125.5 million Eastern Catholic Churches (Eastern Rite) – 21.5 million Alexandrian Ethiopian Catholic Church – 0.21 million Coptic Catholic Church … Continue reading →

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Very Rev Harry Entwistle: Coats of Arms

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Church heraldist Fr Guy Selvester: Above we see the coat of arms of the Very Rev. Harry Entwistle, recently appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the first Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in Australia … Continue reading →

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SSJC and the Traditional Anglican Communion: Cooperation?!

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Very, very interesting… The Society of the Cross and the Traditional Anglican Communion (the emphasis mine): From the Office of the Superior General Lancashire, United Kingdom 23 July 2012 Dearest Faithful: Recently I have been in warm communication with both counterparts … Continue reading →

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Discovery at Hazor: Wheat – The Silent Witness to History

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Dr Jim West: Tweets the American Friends of Hebrew University- Excavations led by @HebrewU‘s Prof Amnon Ben-Tor reveal 3,400-year-old clues to the reason for the destruction of Hazor. Unfortunately they don’t link to further news so I had to go looking … Continue reading →

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Urbanisation and the Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town

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Some population dynamics in Cape Town (where I stay) via The Southern Cross. The Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town occupies an area of 30 842 square kms, but almost 90% of the population in this area live in the Cape … Continue reading →

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Church of England Targets Israel

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Virtue Online: Earlier this month the Church of England’s General Synod endorsed the World Council of Churches’ “Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI).” Essentially this program enlists anti-Israel church activists from the West to “accompany” Palestinian activists so … Continue reading →

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Married Man Forges Path to Catholic Priesthood

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KEYC has the report: As the Pastor at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Waconia, Father Larry Blake says the weekly children’s mass is one of his favorites. “I thought to myself this is great to be able to do this with … Continue reading →

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When an Ordinariate Group is as Small as Ours…

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Writes Fr Edwin Barnes on his blog Ancient Richborough: When an Ordinariate Group is as small as ours – not many more than twenty of us, originally from half a dozen different Anglican churches – we need everyone to pull together. And … Continue reading →

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Some Canadian Ordinariate News

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Deborah Gyapong posts some news from Edmonton: Just got word that the Edmonton group will be received on Sunday, July 29th, this weekend. Here is the email that was forwarded me from former Anglican Catholic Church of Canada priest David Skelton. … Continue reading →

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