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Pope Leo XIV to lead Roman Catholic Church, first American elected to papacy

6 days ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | Claire Giangrave

[Religion News Service] In a shocking vote that caught the Catholic world by surprise, the College of Cardinals elected Robert Francis Prevost, 69, the 267th pope on May 8. He is the first United States citizen to become the bishop of Rome. The Chicago-born Prevost has chosen to take the name Pope Leo XIV, signaling a kinship with the 19th-century Pope Leo XIII, who was known for opening the doors of the church to the world and made Catholic social teaching a central issue during his pontificate.
Episcopal Church’s political advocacy team expands public witness with weekly prayers

1 week ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | David Paulsen

[Episcopal News Service] To say this year has been a busy one for The Episcopal Church’s Washington, D.C.-based Office of Government Relations would be an understatement.
Film crew turns Episcopal church into set for scenes of upcoming Hulu true crime show

1 week ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | David Paulsen

[Episcopal News Service] April was a busy month at St. James Episcopal Church in Marietta, Georgia. First, the congregation stepped up its preparations for Holy Week and gathered all week for daily liturgies, culminating April 20 in Easter worship services attended by almost 600 people. Then, less than 24 hours later, a professional film crew arrived. Certain St. James facilities will be featured in an upcoming true crime limited series on Hulu about the notorious Murdaugh family murders.
Bishop Anthony Ball commissioned director of the Anglican Centre in Rome

1 week ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Anthony Ball was commissioned director of the Anglican Centre in Rome, Italy, during a midday May 6 Eucharist attended by some 50 ecumenical partners and friends in the center’s Chapel of St. Augustine of Canterbury. “Today, in remarkable and historic circumstances, we welcome enthusiastically and liturgically our new director, Bishop Anthony Ball,” said the Rt. Rev.
Presiding bishop’s 2 former dioceses vote to seek separate bishops, ending 6-year partnership

1 week ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | David Paulsen

[Episcopal News Service] The dioceses of Northwestern Pennsylvania and Western New York, whose six-year partnership has served as a model for diocesan collaboration across The Episcopal Church, voted May 3 to seek separate bishops. The move effectively ends their partnership months after their former shared bishop stepped down to become the church’s presiding bishop.
Hearing delayed in disciplinary cases against former Florida Bishop John Howard

2 weeks ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | David Paulsen

[Episcopal News Service] The disciplinary hearing in two Title IV cases against former Florida Bishop John Howard has been delayed to an unspecified future date, according to an updated scheduling order detailing the next steps in the cases over the coming four months. Howard’s cases previously had been scheduled for a hearing April 30-May 2.
135 cardinals will elect the next pope. Francis picked 108 of them.

3 weeks ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | Jack Jenkins

[Religion News Service] As more than a billion Catholics mourn the death of Pope Francis, cardinals around the world are preparing to travel to Rome to begin the solemn tradition of choosing a new pontiff. And when the prelates gather at the Vatican in the coming weeks to elect a new Bishop of Rome, Francis, who died at age 88 on April 21, stands to have an outsize impact on the vote.
Anglican, Episcopal leaders pay tribute to Pope Francis as world mourns his death

3 weeks ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Pope Francis, who led the Roman Catholic Church and its 1.3 billion members worldwide since 2013, died the morning of April 21 at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta. He was 88. A day earlier, from a balcony at St. Peter’s Basilica, seated in a wheelchair, Francis blessed a crowd of tens of thousands gathered in the square to celebrate Easter. He spent Holy Thursday with inmates at a Rome prison, one he’d previously visited to perform the washing of the feet.
Episcopal churches prepare for traditional surge in attendance for Holy Week, Easter

4 weeks ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | David Paulsen

[Episcopal News Service] The Very Rev. Lisa Hackney-James knows her problem is a good one to have. It’s a printing dilemma: How many bulletins will be enough for Easter Sunday at St. James Episcopal Cathedral in Chicago, Illinois? Like most Episcopal congregations, attendance at St. James surges on Easter, when the holy day draws many people who don’t worship regularly on other Sundays. The same goes for Christmas, another holy day central to the Christian faith.
Global faith leaders condemn latest Gaza attacks as blasts damage Anglican hospital

1 month ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | David Paulsen

[Episcopal News Service] Anglicans and other global faith leaders have condemned Israeli airstrikes over the weekend that struck an Anglican hospital in the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza, destroying or damaging several of the hospital’s departments.