22nd December 2007
Pope says Christmas without Christ is 'empty'
In a meditation during the final days of Advent, Pope Benedict has said that celebrating Christmas without mentioning of the birth of Christ is like having an "empty holiday". [More]
Christmas 2007
Message from the Primate
Archbishop John Hepworth
... “And this will be a sign for you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger. And suddenly, there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying “Glory to God in the highest!”...
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21 December 2007
Cardinal Pell says Virgin Birth no legend
“Those who doubt or deny the virgin birth are departing from Christian teaching.”
Sydney's Cardinal George Pell has vehemently disagreed with the worldwide Anglican head, who has said Christians don't need to believe Christ was born of a virgin. [More]
15 December 2007
Christmas Edition Out Now!
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23rd November 2007
Anglican "requests" to be discussed by Pope and Cardinals
Pope Benedict XVI will host a meeting of the Cardinals on Friday 23rd November 2007. The general topic of the meeting is "ecumenism" - the Orthodox and the many requests by exponents of Anglicanism evaluated, and the famous letter of the Traditional Anglican Communion "to the See of Rome seeking full, corporate, sacramental union". [MORE]
21st November 2007
2007 October Edition
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12th November 2007
Letters to the Editor
More of your opinions have been added to our "Letters" page. Read what other people have to say HERE.
9th November 2007
A Statement, Homily, and A Clarification relating to the Traditional Anglican Communion's union with the Holy See.
16th October 2007
Statement authorised by the TAC Primate
" The College of Bishops of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) met in Plenary Session in Portsmouth, England, in the first week of October 2007. The Bishops and Vicars-General unanimously agreed to the text of a letter to the See of Rome seeking full, corporate, sacramental union. The letter was signed solemnly by all the College and entrusted to the Primate and two bishops chosen by the College to be presented to the Holy See.
The letter was cordially received at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The Primate of the TAC has agreed that no member of the College will give interviews until the Holy See has considered the letter and responded."
+ John
6th October 2007
First Pictures of the Consecration of Fr. Michael Gill for Anglican Church in Southern Africa TR.
First pictures of the Reverend Michael Gill’s Consecration as successor to the (late) Bishop Trevor Rhodes, Anglican Church in Southern Africa TR at St. Agatha’s Church, Portsmouth, England, Tuesday 2nd October during the Traditional Anglican Communion’s international College of Bishops meeting at Portsmouth held 1 – 5 October 2007. <Click image for larger picture>
24th September 2007
2007 August / September Issue - OUT NOW!
In the August-September 2007 issue – some lead items:
- What is an Anglican Catholic Priest?
- Halifax congregation move into their new church
- Atheists versus Believers – God debate heats up
- Orthodox Inter-communion achieved in Africa
- Canadian Synod thumbs up to visible communion with Rome or Orthodoxy
- Good Shepherd, Rosemont continues fight for survival and future
- APCK Diocese align with Anglican Church in America/TAC
- Scholar says Ordaining Women is disrespectful
- Ballarat diocese to ordain females
- TAC’s Missionary Endeavours Central America
- L’Eglise Catholique Anglicane du Congo
- Am I guilty of the Devil’s favourite sin?
- The Archives – Canada – Carey in Rome and Ballarat
19 September 2007
Inspiring commitment to the greater unity of the church of Christ
Bishop Florenza welcomed into full membership of House of Bishops
[Report form the House of Bishops, Anglican Church in America - TAC]
BISHOP Rocco A. Florenza, formerly of the Anglican Province of Christ the King, was warmly received and welcomed into full membership in the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America (ACA) at its just-concluded meeting in Orlando, Florida. [MORE]
9th September 2007
The Angelus
Following an Ordination Mass
St. Agatha's Traditional Anglican Communion Portsmouth. UK.
Bishop Robert Mercer CR leads The Angelus at St. Agatha’s Portsmouth, a parish of the Traditional Anglican Communion TAC, following an ordination service.
The Angelus, which takes its name from the opening words of the Latin form: Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae (“The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary”) is a thrice daily devotion in the Anglican Catholic tradition which consists essentially in the reciting of certain prayers at the sound of a bell at fixed hours.
The video clip is 6 minutes.
7th September 2007
Bishops to meet at Portsmouth
TAC’s international College of Bishops will gather in conference at St. Agatha’s Portsmouth, England from 1st to 5th October 2007. It is expected that all bishops exercising Ordinary Jurisdiction and those holding License in Episcopal Order within the TAC as well as Vicars General who have pastoral oversight of dioceses will make the journey to England.
Primate, Archbishop John Hepworth said this was an important gathering of all of our bishops from across the globe. Discussions will centre on the state of affairs in the Anglican world, exploring ways in which the TAC can make a positive contribution to the work of the greater Church and progress being made in TAC’s quest for communion with the Holy See.26 th August 2007
Archbishop Hepworth welcomes the Open Letter from the Primate of the Anglican Catholic Church.
The Anglican Catholic Church has continued its series of public statements on the Unity of the Anglican Continuum by Archbishop John Charles and Archbishop Haverland with an Open Letter to the TAC. [More]
26th August 2007
APCK Diocese, Bishop, align with TAC's Anglican Church in America
WASHINGTON DC based The Christian Challenge reports: JUST WEEKS after an Anglican Province of Christ the King (APCK) bishop voiced serious frustration with longstanding divisions in the mainstream Continuing Church, he and nearly all parishes and clergy of his diocese have left the APCK for the Anglican Church in America (ACA) [More]
11 th July 2007
Statement from the House of Bishops, Anglican Church in America reference APCK
IN a Pastoral Letter recently read to parishes and missions of the Anglican Province of Christ the King's (APCK) Diocese of the Eastern States, Bishop Rocco Florenza pledged increased "cooperation and fellowship" and declared "a state of genuine unity and full communion" with the Anglican Church in America. In response, the following statement has been issued by Bishop George Langberg, speaking for the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America: [More]11 th July 2007
Ballarat's Anglican Church to ordain females for first time
WOMEN will be ordained as Anglican deacons for the first time in Ballarat's history according to the Ballarat Courier.
And in this story Melbourne leading laywoman Dr. Muriel Porter says : "Once you allow women to be ordained and called 'reverend' and having a formal ministry role in the church, in my experience the opposition to women as priests disappears overnight." [More]
SDO began in North-East England in 2003. It continues today as an ecumenical devotional society whose Members pray a common Office of Matins, Vespers and Compline, but who plan their Bible-reading individually.
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