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October 20 2005 By virtueonline VIA MEDIA'S STRATEGY EXPOSED

After a prayer by Rick Matters, we began reports from the field.

VMFW - Bishop Iker has been fairly quiet, but has gotten very vocal about women's ordination. He has sent a formal request 10 Panel of Reference to shelter them from women's ordination. He is claiming that the church is forcing him to accept women's ordination.

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October 18 2005 By virtueonline RECIFE PRIEST RIPS ACTIONS OF CENTRAL AMERICA BISHOPS

The statement was signed by the primates of Brazil, Mexico and Central America, six other Brazilian bishops, the majority of the bishops of Central America, all the bishops of Mexico, plus Western Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Those who did not sign it include the Primate of the Southern Cone, the Most Rev. Gregory Venables and the bishops of Bolivia, Chile, Nthn. Argentina, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.

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October 17 2005 By virtueonline SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH SYMPOSIUM MERGES SCIENCE, FAITH AND HEALING

Now all that is changing. "Today the integration of spirituality and medicine is gaining acceptance and recognition in many academic and clinical institutions," say the authors.

"Although modern psychology and psychiatry focus primarily on the healing forces within their patients, the Spiritual Integrated Approach combines the healing forces of the human body, mind and spirit with the power and love of God," says Torosian, an Armenian Orthodox believer and Biddle a Roman Catholic.

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October 15 2005 By virtueonline SEMINARY DEAN AND BISHOP SPINS GOSPEL OF RECONCILIATION

Reconciliation, Charleston warned, is not the same as resolution. The Gospel "accepts the reality of change, conflict and challenge as being ongoing in the life of any faith community," he wrote in the introduction to the workbook.

Bishop Charleston has it half right, and the half he has wrong destroys his thesis.

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October 15 2005 By virtueonline LATIN AMERICA THEOLOGICAL GROUP CALLS FOR NEW GLOBAL CENTER

Those who did not sign it include the Primate of the Southern Cone, the Most Rev. Gregory Venables and the bishops of Bolivia, Chile, Nthn. Argentina, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.

"We have had nothing whatsoever to do with the organization of this although they might make it look as if we do," Venables wrote VirtueOnline.

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October 13 2005 By virtueonline CHURCH MISSION STATEMENTS REVEAL HEARTS OF WHAT THEY BELIEVE

"We believe that God loves the whole human family, and that Christianity is about learning how to love like God. This means being called to break down the barriers that separate individuals and communities. St John's exists to share the extravagance of God's love with everyone, and you can read more about this in our mission statement."

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October 12 2005 By virtueonline GRISWOLD'S PLURIFORMITY IS GRISWOLD'S JUDGMENT

In his sermon, Griswold cited Christ's analogy of the kingdom of heaven being like a wedding banquet, a feast reserved not for the chosen but for all people. "And so the door to the banquet hall is flung wide and all sorts of riffraff, troublesome to us but close to the heart of God, are ushered in and given a place at the table," Griswold said.

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October 11 2005 By virtueonline PRIEST WHO MADE SEXUAL ABUSE CHARGE IS INHIBITED BY CENTRAL NY BISHOP

"I believe I have been inhibited as a punishment for trying to seek the truth about Johnson's alleged pedophile activities when I received an affidavit from one of 16 victims of my parish charging the former parish priest with sexual abuse."

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October 11 2005 By virtueonline GALLUP ORGANIZATION REFUTES "SOCIETIES WORSE OFF WITHOUT GOD" STORY

"It is important to challenge Paul's assertion forthrightly, because the casual, non-research minded reader, might easily accept his conclusion as entirely plausible on the face of it," writes Gallup.

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October 07 2005 By virtueonline WHY EPISCOPALIANS ARE FLEEING THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Shiflett goes on to visit with Orthodox, Catholics, Southern Baptists, and other traditionalists who still believe in the unchanging, omnipotent God who revealed Himself in infallible Scripture. The same God who was preached in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago. "Such old-fashioned, rigid beliefs should marginalize their adherents in our open-minded, indulgent culture. But people are flocking to such churches, even if they don't agree with everything that is preached there.

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