summit - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:32:31 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg summit - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 World Anglican summit to try to prevent permanent split https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/09/18/world-anglican-summit-to-try-to-prevent-permanent-split/ Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:09:49 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=76729 A summit of Anglican primates will take place in Canterbury, England, in January to try to prevent a permanent split over homosexuality. The invitation to the primates from the Archbishop of Canterbury will bring together a number of church heads who have not spoken directly to each other for more than a decade. As one Read more

World Anglican summit to try to prevent permanent split... Read more]]> A summit of Anglican primates will take place in Canterbury, England, in January to try to prevent a permanent split over homosexuality.

The invitation to the primates from the Archbishop of Canterbury will bring together a number of church heads who have not spoken directly to each other for more than a decade.

As one way of dealing with such a rift, Archbishop Justin Welby reportedly wants the primates to scale the Anglican Communion back into a loosely linked organisation.

Aides have likened this to "moving into separate bedrooms" rather than full-scale divorce.

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World Anglican summit to try to prevent permanent split]]> 76729 Vatican calls ‘summit' of Eastern churches https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/11/01/vatican-calls-summit-eastern-churches/ Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:01:32 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=51576 The Vatican has called a "summit meeting" for the leaders of the Eastern churches in communion with the Holy See, to take place on November 19-22. Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, the prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, said the meeting would allow the leaders of the Eastern churches to "speak before the Pope on Read more

Vatican calls ‘summit' of Eastern churches... Read more]]> The Vatican has called a "summit meeting" for the leaders of the Eastern churches in communion with the Holy See, to take place on November 19-22.

Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, the prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, said the meeting would allow the leaders of the Eastern churches to "speak before the Pope on the situation of eastern Christians".

The theme of the meeting will be "The Eastern Catholic Churches fifty years after Vatican Council II".

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