The 2025 Story of the Year in religion is obviously the surprise May 8 election of the first Pope from the United States, Leo XIV. The second-place story, less publicized but important, is the Oct. 16 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori became the first woman picked to lead an Anglican province Sunday when she was elected presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, a ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Episcopal Church on Sunday elected Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori as the first female chief pastor of the denomination and the first female leader in the history of the ...

Church history is not a particularly prominent area in history writing, especially at a time the study of history has been so relegated in our institutions of learning. But to neglect church history ...

Here are some key facts about the Anglican church.4 There are approximately 77 million baptised Anglicans.The denomination has 38 self-governing churches, made up of 500 dioceses, 30,000 parishes and ...

Sydney and Melbourne Anglicans are not distinguished by how they reflect their metropolitan cultures, but their different judgments about how they should dissent from or conform to those cultures.

A view of Anglicanism that places Scripture as supreme authority and has a flexible attitude to secondary matters (like vestments) certainly has a good case to be considered as authentically Anglican.

Episcopal Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in a 2007 CNS file photo Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has forcefully defended her church's embrace of gays and lesbians, and firmly ...