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14 Mar 2013, 9:47 am
A Superior Court judge in Kern County recently granted the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment on the nonsensical grounds that it was required, under "neutral principles of law," to defer to the "ecclesiastical determinations" of the Episcopal Church (USA).The judgment would most likely be overturned by the same Court that reversed the earlier and similar summary judgment in the Fresno case, but that would mean another two to three years of litigation and thousands and… [read post]
14 Mar 2013, 8:45 am
, as anyone who is not blind may see.San Francisco has nothing on the Episcopal Church (USA) -- the nanny Church that welcomes you! [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 4:00 am
The case involves an attempt by The Episcopal Church to establish its title to property of the break-away San Joaquin Diocese. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 8:32 am
As reported by AP, yesterday Episcopal Bishop Charles von Rosenberg who heads the minority of congregations in South Carolina that remain loyal to The Episcopal Church filed a federal lawsuit against Bishop Mark Lawrence who heads the larger portion of the congregations that in 2012 broke away from the national church. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 4:54 pm
It merely states there is no rule of the Episcopal Church or Diocese permitting a deposed Episcopal Bishop to transfer Episcopal property. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 4:14 pm
Elsewhere -- and in the case caption itself -- it describes him as the Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina." [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 11:46 pm
District Court today against Bishop Mark Lawrence, asking the court to declare that only vonRosenberg, as the bishop recognized by The Episcopal Church, has the authority to act in the name of the Diocese of South Carolina.Having renounced The Episcopal Church, Bishop Lawrence is no longer authorized to use the diocese’s name and seal. [read post]
2 Mar 2013, 4:00 am
The church “will be among the first Episcopal congregations to implement a new rite of marriage adapted from the blessing ceremony... [read post]
Updated: Amicus briefs in support of the Proposition 8 respondents and DOMA respondent Edith Windsor
1 Mar 2013, 7:37 am
Brief for Bishops of the Episcopal Church of California et al. [read post]
28 Feb 2013, 9:13 pm
The initial skirmishes in the litigation between Bishop Mark Lawrence's Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina and the Episcopal Church (USA) have been postponed to yet another day. [read post]
25 Feb 2013, 8:20 pm
The work was supported by Marquette Law School and the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, U.S.A., and their study was published in the Fall 2012 Marquette Law Review. [read post]
19 Feb 2013, 9:18 pm
For years he has claimed that the following--by an unknown and long-dead lawyer, and dated 1836--was discovered during the 1980s in the ruins of an old Episcopal church in a northern Virginia town near our native DC. [read post]
16 Feb 2013, 10:43 am
That the Episcopal Church in these States is and ought to be independent of all foreign Authority, ecclesiastical or civil.II. [read post]
6 Feb 2013, 8:34 am
Many denominations – including the Episcopal Church, Congregational churches, Jewish congregations, and others – also refuse to condone discrimination within their own religious organizations. [read post]
2 Feb 2013, 5:14 pm
., Jan. 28, 2013), a Texas state appellate court invoked the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine to dismiss a suit by an Episcopal priest against a parishioner alleging slander, tortious interference with contractual relationship and wrongful discharge. [read post]
1 Feb 2013, 4:46 pm
Mark Lawrence (formerly of the Episcopal Church (USA), and now -- still regarded by everyone but ECUSA as an Anglican bishop -- of the Anglican Communion at large). [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 3:15 pm
But that still leaves the question: is the group a diocese within the Episcopal Church, or is it some other kind of arm of the Church? [read post]
28 Jan 2013, 4:25 pm
Only dioceses are members of the Episcopal Church (USA); it uses no other name for them. [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 9:15 pm
Instead, "The Episcopal Church" is no more, and no less, than what its member dioceses choose to make of it.Second, that since "The Episcopal Church" is greater than any of its parts, it follows that "The Episcopal Church" can lord it over any individual one of those parts -- and in this case, over the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, headed by the Rt. [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 5:57 pm
The immediate urgency requiring the ex parte hearing, from the point of view of Bishop Lawrence and his Diocese, was the scheduled meeting this Saturday of the Episcopal remnant in South Carolina which desires to organize a new diocese within the Episcopal Church (USA) to replace the one that has withdrawn. [read post]
