women bishops

CoI appoints first female Anglican Bishop in Ireland or Britain

Mick Fealty on September 20, 2013, 4:15 pm

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Put simply, on the day Pope Francis called for greater involvement of women in the life of the Catholic Church, the Anglo Catholic Church in Ireland (aka, the Church of Ireland) acted to appoint the first woman bishop in these islands… The Revd Pat Storey (53) has been Rector of St Augustine’s, Londonderry (Derry and Raphoe) since 2004. She is married to the Revd Earl Storey and has two adult children, Carolyn and Luke, and a son–in–law Peter. Having grown …

Women bishops – it is about religion, stupid

Brian Walker on November 21, 2012, 9:00 pm

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Does anybody else feel uneasy that the case for women bishops is championed by commentators with a wholly secular agenda and that an essential element of the argument has been deliberately left out? Too hard for our little heads to take in or too silly for words, being about religion? Nothing wrong with the secularists’ case of course. Only there’s no reason why their voices should prevail, as distinct from the great majority of church members in favour of women …