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October 23, 2009: New Vatican Policy on Anglicans
Watch National Catholic Reporter senior correspondent John L. Allen Jr. and Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton discuss the Roman Catholic Church's plan to absorb unhappy Anglicans wishing to become Catholics.
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September 18, 2009: Second Life
"Spirituality has always had a virtual aspect to it," says anthropology professor Tom Boellsdorff. "People in Second Life can pray and do all kinds of things and find it completely spiritually fulfilling."
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July 17, 2009: Episcopal Convention Report
After decades of debate and division, the US Episcopal Church this week said overwhelmingly that gays and lesbians are eligible to become bishops or serve in any other ordained ministry of the church.
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April 17, 2009: Rwandan Reconciliation
For 100 days in 1994, Rwandans killed each other at a rate of 10,000 a day. Today the country tries to heal its wounds and deal with the consequences of the slaughter. "We have a nation to build," says Anglican Bishop John Rucyahana. "We cannot wait until we forget the genocide."
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February 5, 2009: Zimbabwe and the Churches
Leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion have called on Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, to step down. Watch what Rev. Thomas Shaw, Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, had to say after his trip to Zimbabwe last year.
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July 18, 2008: The New Anglicanism?
Read an excerpt from Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies Are Reshaping Anglicanism, by Miranda K. Hassett.
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November 9, 2007: Janet Cooper Nelson
Read more of Lucky Severson's interview with the Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson, chaplain of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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September 28, 2007: U.S. Episcopal Church: What Now?
the Episcopal Church divisions over homosexuality and the interpretation of Scripture. This week the U.S. Episcopal bishops went as far as they said they could to comply with the demand from the worldwide Anglican Communion that the U.S. church clarify its policies on gay issues.
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September 28, 2007: Bishop Robert Duncan
Read more of Kim Lawton's September 27, 2007 interview with Bishop Robert Duncan of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh.
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September 28, 2007: Bishop Gene Robinson
Read more of Kim Lawton's interview in New Orleans with Bishop Gene Robinson of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire.
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