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No commentary again today. Soon we'll be back on track, I promise.

Anglican troubles:

• Catholic diocese revokes invitation to Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop | "Many of my people would deeply offended to learn that an Episcopal Bishop, who holds a position that is radically opposed to what both the Catholic Church and Scripture teach about homosexuality, is using one of our facilities," explains Bishop Victor Galeone (WJXX, Jacksonville, Fla.)
  
  
• Also: Catholics yank offer over pro-gay Episcopalian (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Bishop Jecko comments on decision of Catholic diocese to rescind invitation | It is my understanding that the invitation will be reinstated should Presiding Bishop Griswold choose not to be a participant in the consecration (American Anglican Council)
  
  
• Secret paper reveals Church spin plans to defuse gay crisis | Rowan Williams's secretary for public affairs called for a poetry reading, a high-profile Lords intervention, or a theology prize (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Also: PR for JC | A humor piece (Editorial, The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Also: The gatekeeper at Lambeth Palace | Jeremy Harris, 52, the Archbishop of Canterbury's, secretary for public affairs, is the Church of England's most senior lay adviser (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Episcopal split painful for diocese | Local believers face painful decisions in wake of controversy (The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.)
  
  
• Bishop banned by Hollingworth to preach here | Two years after ban, John Shelby Spong will speak in Brisbane cathedral (AAP)
  
  
• Church unity hinges on the response to a small rebellion | Just nine parishes rebelled, but the issue of same-sex unions and how Canterbury deals with it is of great import (Peter Jensen, The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Also: Gay issue a 'contest for soul of the west', says Jensen | "It's a question of whether the permissive sexual ethics of the 1960s are actually going to triumph in western culture, and the church is almost the last port of call in this," says Sydney's archbishop (AAP)
  
  
• Church's gay activists beg to be heard | Two-page letter sent to all 38 primates attacks Peter Akinola, the Archbishop of Nigeria and leader of the church in Africa, for his "astonishing" attacks on gays, and accuses him of being out of date in scientific and theological knowledge (The Guardian, London)
  
  

Christianity and Islam:

• Firebrand church faces race hate case | Catch The Fire Ministries will be brought to legal account over their claims that Muslims want to take over Australia and deport those who refuse to convert to Islam (The Australian)
  
  
• Woman accused of harassing Muslims | Civil rights complaint says she "is a former Muslim who converted to Christianity as an adult and now expresses significant hostility towards members of her former religion." (Portland Press Herald, Me.)
  
  
• Muslim cut his daughter's throat for taking a Christian boyfriend | Abdalla Yones asked the court to impose the death sentence but was told that was not possible under English law (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  

Crime:

• Priest faces charge of indecent exposure | The priest will be placed on administrative leave by the Archdiocese of San Antonio while an investigation is conducted (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Priest to be placed on administrative leave | Archdiocese of San Antonio will conduct an internal investigation as police file charges (San Antonio Express-News)
  
  
• Church leaders moving to tackle crime | Pastors are now seeking the full endorsement of the five major umbrella organizations that represent churches in Jamaica (Jamaica Observer)
  
  

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September (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47