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The Vatican’s recent decision to allow blessings for same-sex couples has caused an uproar in the Catholic Church. These splits center on a set of fundamental questions about the nature of ...
5,505 disaffiliations, 17 legal battles and new alternative Methodist groups. Why 2023 was so dramatic for the United Methodist Church's splintering.
Churches that still want to leave the United Methodist Church as part of a splintering in the denomination no longer have a procedural way to do so, or at least with their property in tow.
Canon 751 of the Latin Church's 1983 Code of Canon Law, promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1983, defines schism as the following: "schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him". [4] This definition is reused in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. [5]
On 14 October 1834, a large majority of the congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in Ulrum, signed the Act of Secession and Return" and broke away from the State Church. [3] [7] The Secession would play a role in the 1857 Dutch Reformed Church split between the Reformed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church in North America ...
Church splits aren’t the exception; they’re the rule. The history of Christianity sometimes seems to be one division after another, endlessly, each split as agonizing for those involved as the ...
The 1886 Dutch Reformed Church split, also known as the Doleantie (from Latin dolere, 'to feel sorrow'), was the name of a prominent schism in the Dutch Reformed Church (Nederlands Hervormde Kerk) that took place in 1886 and was led by a renowned minister, Abraham Kuyper. [1] The Doleantie was not the first schism in the Dutch Reformed Church.
Only one church in Oregon, Fossil United Methodist Church, in Fossil, a small city in the middle of Oregon, disaffiliated over the weekend, while 11 churches in Washington state disaffiliated.